Kat Von D Quotes

One of Pixar's key mechanisms is the Braintrust, which we rely on to push us toward excellence and to root out mediocrity. It is our primary delivery system for straight talk.

People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.

When you take on a project, you have to be certain that you can make the best version of whatever it is you're given.

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

Someone will say, 'Well, that's good enough.' As soon as I hear 'Good enough,' it really bothers me. I spend as much time as I think I can on anything I do. I try to do that with the people that work with me. I try to get the best out of them.

We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

The bar was very high-we had to really make sure that we got what we really wanted, that it was a real finished album. We weren't going to give up until we got that.

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

It don't matter who I'm working with. I just feel like I want to make the best record possible.

You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.

I try to implement my own ways of making teams successful.

In the end, we don't believe in launching any type of product if it isn't perfect in our eyes.

I'm a perfectionist, so everything I put out needs to be, like, 100 percent. So when it comes to releasing things on my YouTube channel, I triple-quadruple check it before I post it because this has got to be ready for the amount of people who are going to be watching, for sure.

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.

I am a perfectionist. When I take a picture...it's gotta be good.

I think one of the things that makes Arch Enemy so unique is that we're five musicians who are all super self-critical but also super-driven.

It's nice to be in the position where you're the guy with the vision, but you're able to work with people who can bring your vision to life - and then some.

In a collaborator, I always look for someone who's going to push me a little bit.

I've spent my whole life in real estate, whether it's in our hotels or looking at the competition, and it's my curse to walk into every room and not be drawn to the flaws and have the little imperfections drive me crazy - because they didn't need to happen.

I believe that the message of Apollo XI was that in the spirit of Apollo, a free and open spirit, you can attack a very difficult goal and achieve it, if you can all agree and work together to achieve that goal.

Being a perfectionist is not an evil thing.

You should empower the creativity of others.

It really is appallingly difficult to do something which is complete in every respect, and I think most people are content with mere approximations. Well, my dear friend, I intend to battle on, scrape off and start again.

I'm pretty hard to impress, and I'm pretty exacting, in terms of what I want from my props department and art department. We spend many, many hours going over visual research and finding the right artists to create the material.