Ben Mendelsohn Quotes

We never threw a record together. Each record was done really seriously, as if our life depended on it.

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

When I look back on what I've done, I think I'm drawn to obsession, perhaps.

College football, acting, opera singing - I approached them all in the same obsessive way.

I don't try to be difficult. I just care so much about these albums that I get crazed sometimes when I'm making them.

Most good work is a combination of parts you love and parts you could do better. My constant mantra is, 'Next time, next time, next time.'

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it's the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.

If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

It's not how many hours you put in with a client or on a project. It's the quantity and quality of your energy - your focus and force - that determine whether that time is valuable.

I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do.

Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.' Each discipline I approach as a major undertaking that I put my whole self into.

The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 percent while I am working, and then there's nothing else that counts.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.

When you do everything to make the very best product, it also means you're very focused on just a few products.

Well, I am obsessive about my work. I throw myself in all the way.

My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.

All I can do is try to create the best show possible, and I feel we've truly done that.

When I'm working on a movie, I will make any sacrifice to finish it.

I tend to obsess over my passions.

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

I'm a very obsessive type. If I do get into it, I'll soon be there 12 hours a day. I just don't want to do that.

We put everything we had into this record, just like we do with every other record that we make.