Michael Shannon Quotes

Everything that David Chase does has a tremendous amount of specificity. He is very detail oriented.

If I had my way, we'd rehearse things to death.

I don't go into rehearsal for a production unless I've figured everything out.

I'm a big perfectionist, and I like to make sure everything 120 percent, from the production to the vocal performance to the lyrics, the melody and everything.

If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

There's no detail too small for me.

Perfection is the child of time.

I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.

Ang Lee is very precise. He will show you everything, and will let you know what he is thinking about the whole project. There are a lot of rehearsals before shooting, and you already reach a certain standard. Then he will ask for more.

I'm a perfectionist. And that's served me very well in my career. It allows me to handle these large, complex problems without letting things fall through the cracks... That is the mentality you have to have to attack these complex problems of chip design, for example, when you're overwhelmed with complexity.

I'm a perfectionist to a default. I will drive you crazy sometimes. When I'm recording, I will try something a trillion times to get it right.

I learned no detail was too small. It was all about the details.

I'm a perfectionist. I won't do a thing without trying to do it well.

To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.

Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.

I'm horribly hands-on, I'm afraid. I like to read every caption.

It is exactness I aim at, and would not have the least mistake, if possible, pass to the world. If I have unhappily fallen into any, it is through inadvertency only

Ever since I was a young girl, even in school, I was always a perfectionist, and I always wanted to do my homework as soon as I got home. Everything had to be done properly.

I'm not a guy that loves a lot of rehearsal, but it depends.

Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was correct.

I do want people to have a sense of just the extreme level of meticulousness and care that goes into everything. I wouldn't expect anybody to catch all the details of what I'm doing. The level of obsession is so extreme.

I'm very meticulous.

One of the great things about doing a play, repeating it over and over again, is that you can practice. And you can get really quite good at it for a while.

Because I am of a generation and slightly old-fashioned, my bottom line belief is what you do is you rehearse and you work and you own it. Of course, you hone it during the first few performances but once you have it honed, not that you must ever assume it is perfect, part of the craft is being able to repeat that.