Audrey Tautou Quotes

I do admit to being challenging, but it's always for the work, it's never personal. I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening.

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

I'm not afraid to delay the schedule to make sure that this is the film that I want, that this is the best that I can do at that point.

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

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

I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.

I'm the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.

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.

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

'Good enough is good enough' - that's never been acceptable for me.

Every condition must be favorable, or I do not work and will not.

What keeps me up is always raising the bar, and what makes my team happiest and also most worrisome is I'm always asking for more.

In my work I think what drives me is perfection. I'm a chronically unsatisfied guy.

I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'

I never compromise with my work.

I don't want to put out something I'm not psyched on just because I finished it. That's the stupidest reason to do something, really. I want it to be up to my standards. I don't want to put out something I wouldn't listen to.

I'm a perfectionist. I'm very critical, especially artistically.

I have always believed in quality work.

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.

If I'm not happy with the quality of something I'm working on, I won't put it out. That does not mean that others won't question the quality.

A perfectionist? That's part of my job.

I'm controlling over anything I create. I'm very precious about it.

I don't like doing substandard work... I can't sleep at night if I make a bad song.