Julia Cameron Quotes

I'm like a recovering perfectionist. For me it's one day at a time.

Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.

Don't try to make comparisons between your own pictures. Forget what you have done and think only of making the best of what you are doing.

My priorities are: I need to be good; I need to be well within for my children to be well within; and then the creative process flows, organically and smoothly. I'm not looking to experience what I went through in the 'Livin' La Vida Loca' days again.

I don't watch my own past films: when I watch them, I find they don't work very well, because I have changed. If I continue to make films, in fact, it is because I always want to repair my films. My inner rhythm has changed; I have changed. I have changed my way to film.

I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.

The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

I'm still finding myself as an artist. I'm still experimenting a little bit.

It took me three albums to get the confidence and to find out what I could do that made me different from other people. And the first record, really, was a process of trying.

Sometimes making progress a step at a time is better than no progress at all.

'99.9%' is the end product of years and years of me going through multiple styles and interests.

Art is something in which you are never an expert at any point of time. It's something you hone all the time and something which is elusive all the time.

We need to live day by day and to improve.

When I look back I either feel I did this mistake while shooting or writing. Eventually you try and make sure you do not repeat the same mistake with your next film. I always feel I could have made the film better.

I'm trying to be more organized, put together, and be more kind to myself. I'm really hard on myself and really just self-critical and always striving for this perfection which doesn't exist.

If I hear a film clip, or I happen to see some image from a film - you go to a film festival, and they show some clip of the movies you've been in, most of the time I sit there and go, "Oh God, I should have... should have... that was terrible." But I think that's a natural part of this work, because really, your work is never over. Of course I can leave it alone and walk off the set and never think about it again when it's done. But your work is really ongoing all the time.

Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to continue working on it so that later I may recognize it as a work of my mind.

Perfect is unattainable. Better is possible.

God works according to the law of gradual growth, so don't be discouraged if your progress seems slow.

Pushing yourself to be the best is unsustainable. Simply push yourself to be better than the day before.

Remember that, sooner or later, before it ever reaches perfection, you will have to let it go and move on and start to write the next thing. Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.

Love is when I smile and breathe deeply down to my toes. I've given myself a gift of caring for myself and learned a new way to look at my issues. And I'm lying in some fresh sheets looking out the window at some visual beauty... a mountain, an ocean, a stream, a forest. A lovely man lying next to me or my babies sleeping.

It's important to relax and not put too much pressure on oneself, players must be patient when striving to improve.

Rereading places you at the point where it has to go on, knowing it is as good as you can get it up to there. There is always juice somewhere.