Dustin Lance Black Quotes

As a game creator, I'm not 100% satisfied when looking back at the previous game that I released.

I'm more critical of the films I make than anyone else.

I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous 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.

You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.

I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in my life when I'll do something that I think is good. There's always stuff you can do better, stuff that maybe you didn't uncover enough. But if you do something that you truly believe is perfect, then that's got to be the last movie you do.

I'm so super-critical of everything that I do.

Try really, really hard not to judge your own work too harshly.

Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.

I like my raps, but I'm never too happy with some of 'em because I feel like they could be better.

Well, once we finish something, I can't really listen to it because all I hear are problems.

I try to be a positive person, but I'm also always looking and wondering, 'Maybe this could be done differently.' As soon as your mind is in a critical mode, you're halfway through designing; as soon as you start thinking about whether something could be better, you're already halfway through a solution.

Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'

I will always be my hardest critic. Nobody else will ever be able to come at something I do harder than I come at myself.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

I always consider myself as good as my last film. I tend to analyse my work very critically.

After seeing some of my emotional scenes, I end up thinking I could've done it better.

I never feel like anything I have done is perfect. I feel like there is always room for improvement.

I always try to find better ways to do things. Whether it's a game plan, a practice, a meeting, an interview, whatever it is. I'm going to find a way to find a way to analyze it and find a better way to do it. That's my mindset. I've never been satisfied with anything. That's just my mindset. I'm always trying to find a better way to do things.

I analyse everything I do and when I see something I don't like I try to find the solution and that's why I'm so hard on myself.

I'm always my worst critic.

You know when you've had a good game, and you know when you could have done better.

I don't look at 'Deadpool' and think, 'Oh, that's a perfect movie.' I look at it and go, 'Oh, God, there's so much stuff I could do better.'

Obviously we're all our own biggest critics.

Most good work is a combination of parts you love and parts you could do better. My constant mantra is, 'Next time, next time, next time.'