Sam Esmail Quotes

People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume.

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

I'm a little bit of a control freak when it comes to my music, unfortunately.

I'm a perfectionist, and I'm not going to let the world hear a record until it's ready.

If you know anything about me and my history, you know I'm very particular about my projects.

A lot of the projects I've been involved with have been my babies, and I'm not going to give my baby to anyone else.

I'm an awful control freak at times when it comes to production and stuff like that.

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 don't really analyze my process. I do know that if it's not right, I won't move on. I'm tenacious to a fault about that.

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.

I'm pretty rigorous about the drafts I turn in. I don't turn in something that's so ungodly they go, 'What the hell is this?'

I never trust anything that can be captured in 2 takes.

I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.

I revise obsessively. It's important to me to have a clean page.

I always watch the work I do.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

God is in the details.

I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault.

I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.

My songs are like my kids.

My self-editing process is intense.

I measure everything, because I always think that if I've spent so much time making sure this recipe was exactly the way I want it, why would I want to throw things into a pot?

Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter. It's that I'm almost pathologically incapable of leaving something when I'm not quite happy with it.

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.

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