James Jebbia Quotes

I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.

Be authentic about what you produce and there will always be an audience.

There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work.

I think a show can work anywhere if it's done honestly, with integrity, and with confidence.

Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.

Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing.

I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people.

I love the finer things.

I am an outspoken person. I believe in what I say.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

Quality. That's the key. Everything I do, I want it to have that stamp that people like Jay Z, for instance, have on all the things they touch.

We never go overboard and above people's heads. We strive to retain that energy, that spirit we've always had. We feel the more simple and original something is, the better.

I'm a fan of anything that's good, especially when it's conscientiously good.

To do this movie in a watered-down fashion or have these characters be watered down wouldn't have been near as effective. It wouldn't have been staying true to what this 'Watchmen' phenomenon is.

There is always a reverence issue, and I'm no different from any audience member that if someone's adapting a book or comic that I like, I really don't want them to screw it up.

If you're going to do a thing, do it fully so that no writing you give the world misrepresents you - so that nothing you put out there is like a sad regift you couldn't throw away and had to find a place for.

Sometimes all your fanbase wants you to do is stay within your envelope and do you because that's what they love you for.