Ken Burns Quotes

I'm more critical of the films I make than anyone else.

Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself.

I've always been hard on myself, so I expect so much out of myself that that pressure can be inspiring at time.

I'm a perfectionist. I'm very hard on myself and very critical.

I am notoriously hard on myself in terms of working on new material and while I am critical of my performance on the Led Zeppelin material, I am way more critical of my own stuff. I'm pretty hard on myself.

I'm probably my biggest critic. There's nothing anyone can ask of me that I haven't already asked of myself.

I'm pretty critical of myself as far as reaching some sort of perfect bull's-eye or target that I'm aiming for.

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.

I will always be my hardest critic. Nobody else will ever be able to come at something I do harder than I come at myself.

I'm my hardest critic because I know what I can do and I strive to be as perfect as I can be even though I know it's not possible.

I'm a perfectionist and my own worst critic.

I'm a perfectionist, and I very rarely satisfy myself when I come in and watch the film the next day.

Unless I can do myself justice and play well, I'm not going to play.

I know as soon as a game is finished if I have done well. I don't need people to tell me. I want to achieve perfection.

I put a lot of pressure on myself to be the best.

I'm a perfectionist. I'm very critical, especially artistically.

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.

You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.

But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

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

I can be very critical on myself and on other people; I can be very demanding.

I'm so super-critical of everything that I do.

I cannot watch my own dailies, ever. I'm my worst critic. It distracts me. I can watch it when it's done, but I'm not the girl that wants to run back and look at the performance.

Try really, really hard not to judge your own work too harshly.