Tim Miller Quotes

I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.

I never feel like anything I have done is perfect. I feel like there is always room for improvement.

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best.

I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

I'm never a person who likes anything I've done. It's just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I'm still thinking, 'You know, that could have been better if you had done it this way or that way.

I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in my life when I'll do something that I think is good. There's always stuff you can do better, stuff that maybe you didn't uncover enough. But if you do something that you truly believe is perfect, then that's got to be the last movie you do.

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

Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.

I do have high standards. I look at everything I have done and think, 'Why wasn't that better?' Part of my motivation is from crippling self-doubt - I have got to prove myself wrong.

It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.

I'm so hard on myself and a really harsh critic of my work.

I would like to believe that I am a collaborative actor. That's why I love all the directors I have worked with in recent times, as they are all collaborative directors. I think my constant desire is to keep bettering my own work. I don't get easily satisfied with my work; I am very critical of it. I learn from my mistakes.

I'm definitely my worst critic. I guess that's good because it keeps you on your toes.

I'm super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I'm critical of other people, too - I try not to be, though.

I'll never get complacent. I am my own toughest critic.

I've always been a really hard critic of everything I do.

I don't like the word 'perfectionist,' because it's self-flattering. It's tooting your own horn and implies that you actually can achieve perfection. I prefer 'particularist.'

I am very self-critical about what I do. Always.

I don't feel like congratulating myself, because I know there's still a lot of room for improvement.

Just because you're perfectionist doesn't mean you're perfect.

I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough.

Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.