Scott Snyder Quotes

I don't try to be difficult. I just care so much about these albums that I get crazed sometimes when I'm making them.

Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.

There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it's the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.

I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.

I'm often called obsessive, but I don't think I am any more than anyone else.

I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.

I'm not an easy customer. My attention to detail could probably drive you mad. My eye still always goes toward the single flaw.

Well, I am obsessive about my work. I throw myself in all the way.

I put a lot of pressure on myself and I think I am quite... well, intense about driving other people.

My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.

I tend to obsess over my passions.

I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it.

We never threw a record together. Each record was done really seriously, as if our life depended on it.

If you look in the dictionary under 'perfectionist,' you see Henry Selick correcting the definition of perfectionist in the dictionary. I mean, he is so meticulous.

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. You want to be focused on it.

I take my fun very seriously, whether it's playing the drums or acting in comedy bits. The need to be disciplined about it, and not take it lightly, and not be too casual, is something I take deeply to heart.

I can be a bit impatient sometimes. If I'm really focusing on something, I can expect everybody to move at the same pace, and that's probably not massively endearing.

Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.

When I look back on what I've done, I think I'm drawn to obsession, perhaps.

I don't take any shorts. I don't say, 'Okay, it's good enough.' I try to get exactly what I'm hearing in my head to the tape, and I won't let it move until then.

When I'm working, I'm insufferable because I get stuck with myself, and suddenly I become obsessive, thinking about how to make something better.

Only one sport can subsume my life at a time.

College football, acting, opera singing - I approached them all in the same obsessive way.

I guess I get really obsessive or passionate about things.