Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

I have extremely high standards.

My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

It's hard to get me to even say I played good. That's just in me. I'm just never satisfied. A lot of my friends get annoyed by it.

I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.

My father was judgmental and kind of mean, and I'm like that. And he was very perfectionistic, and I'm like that. And he was very hard on himself, and I'm like that.

I'm kind of harsher than most people.

I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.

I'm a perfectionist to a fault.

I have been considerably picky for somebody who's not a movie star, and sometimes I get frustrated.

People who know me know I'm never satisfied.

Whatever you think rigor looks like, you should go up a few notches.

If you can't do it and do it well, you can't do it, period.

It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.

Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.

Audiences can be very judgmental.

I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.

My father was a very difficult man.

Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.

I was a purist bore.

I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.

I'm a perfectionist and, when it comes to people I want to work with, I have changed my mind, like, millions of times.

Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter. It's that I'm almost pathologically incapable of leaving something when I'm not quite happy with it.

Lucy is such a perfectionist.