Adam Scott Quotes

I am a perfectionist, and my immense respect for my fans and the public meant that the quality of my clothing had to match my performance.

Neil and I share a desire for great quality in our work. If we are offered projects, look at projects, or consider projects that don't have that quality, then we don't do them.

I've never recorded anything I didn't like.

I write all the time, but you just want to be careful what you put out. That's all. You want to have the confidence that you've done what you need to do to it, because otherwise it's an exercise in vanity.

I couldn't just hand in any old rubbish - I can't go on tour and sing something for three years if I don't believe in it.

I wouldn't put out anything that I didn't want to ride to.

I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.

I always want people to realise that whatever I do is a quality product. And that's what's really important to me.

Don't even go to the studio if you don't think that your music's going to do something. You're wasting your time and my time.

I feel every time I have 12 good songs for a new album, I am in with a chance to compete with the big boys. As long as I have that attitude, it's healthy.

My goal with everything that I do is to present things in a way that I would want to see if I was in the audience or buying the record.

What matters finally is not the world's judgment of oneself but one's own judgment of the world.... Any writer who lacks this final arrogance will not survive very long in America.

Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.

I'm a self-made actor in Bollywood. And when I see actors far more good-looking and talented than me struggling for a place, I feel quite happy with my place.

This is the great thing about my friends over at Lucasfilm: They are so committed to the highest quality product that they allow their DPs to come on well in advance of the shoot.

I know what I think of myself and the standard I hold myself to.

I want to be choosier. I can't let quality take a back seat... not after 'Kaaka Muttai.'

As a creative person, you never embark on something thinking it will be substandard.

To be honest, I never compare myself with the rookies.

It's always nice to have another filmmaker to reassure you that you are making a good quality film.

I only would say yes to a film, do a film or any project, if I think I would watch it. Whether the audience will like it, not like it, how will they take to the film, these are not things in your control and you shouldn't bother about them.

You've got to test yourself against the best to know you are the best.

I think there are still better players than me.

My focus is on a ring, and giving the best individual performance I can.

You should always make it like it's your last film. That's my personal belief. Every filmmaker is going to have another belief... That's the only way I know to try to make a film that might be good. You got to take it real seriously like it's your last thing.