Antony Johnston Quotes

I'm always working. If I'm not in my studio I become quite nervous.

I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done.

I hope each day to have done 10 seconds of good work that they can use in the film. And I'm always afraid I didn't get those 10 seconds.

I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.

I've never been a believer in the word-count thing. I write slowly and tinker with the words and the word order, and I throw a lot of stuff out.

I always watch the work I do.

I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.

I don't relax. I can't take vacations. I'm obsessive-compulsive, and I worry with every project that I'm going to fail. When it starts to go well, and I sense that something beautiful and important and meaningful is being created, it's a fantastic feeling, and I find it very hard to stop.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.

I don't believe in making a record and rushing it.

When I create something, it's got to be special, and it can't just be to throw something out there because I feel like I'm Missy.

It's really difficult for me to sit and watch anything that I do because I always think about what's there, and what there could be to make it even better.

By the time I'm done with a project, it's taken so long that I usually don't even like it anymore. I only see the things I wish I'd done differently.

For me, the more time you can take and the more care you can take with songs, the better off you're going to be.

I'd much rather wait till my material is up to par, in my opinion, than rush it just so I can stay in the limelight a little longer.

If I'm not happy with the quality of something I'm working on, I won't put it out. That does not mean that others won't question the quality.

I would say that I don't make music quickly; like, my process has been very slow, and my bar is very high, and I don't really rush to make music just to get something out there.

I'd rather do less work than do bad work.

I had a studio visitor ask me when a piece was complete, and afterward, I realized I was kind of annoyed by the question. I wrote down to myself, 'Nothing's ever finished' as an operating value.

I'm not the type of person who makes a lot of songs in a day just to see which one is the best.

With my own stuff, I've always held to the belief that it should take as long as it takes until it feels right.

I wanted to complete 'Maryada Ramanna' in a short time, but it took me almost a year, and now 'Eega' took double the time, but in the end, it was worth it.

I've always believed that you have to have the skills before you destroy the skills. If you want to be crude, be crude, but don't be crude because you don't know how to do it, because you're not perfect at drawing and pattern-cutting.