Toyo Ito Quotes

The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.

I don't have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, 'Nailed that one.' But endless dissatisfaction is, I suppose, what gets us out of bed in the morning.

I feel that's a good thing as an actor that you do not feel satisfied. Whenever I go back and watch myself on screen, I find multiple reasons to redo that scene. That's an occupational hazard that most actors face. You can never come to terms with it.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

As an artist, you're never happy with anything you do. It's part of the process.

No matter at what speed I move forward, I am never satisfied.

I haven't yet made clothes that I have been totally satisfied with, and maybe I never will.

No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.

I'm never satisfied, man. I'm Virgo. We overanalyze and we're never satisfied. So I'm gonna keep going 'til the wheels fall off.

I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

I'm never a person who likes anything I've done. It's just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I'm still thinking, 'You know, that could have been better if you had done it this way or that way.

I've never felt completely satisfied with what I've done. I tend to see things too critically. I'm trying to get over that.

In fashion, I think I make mistakes every day.

My stories are never quite good enough.

I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.

Almost every magazine piece I've ever written, I felt like I haven't done it justice, like it was just a gloss.

I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.

What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

I will say, there's not an episode in existence where whatever didn't come out the way I wanted it to or is an actual mistake that won't nag at me until the end of the time.

I rarely like the music I make. It's like nothing's good enough. I just stay in my head, waiting on the next best beat, so I can do something better than what I did.

The nature of being an artist in any field, but specifically in comedy, is that almost as soon as you finish something you hate it, and it feels dated, and not your best work.

I'm very picky; I'm never happy with anything. It's so hard to give the record away and accept that you're done.

It's a blessing and a curse, 'cause I'm never satisfied, so I continually want to outdo myself. But still, I'm never happy.

I have this problem where I'm never satisfied with what I do.