Jovan Adepo Quotes

The thing is, I don't just take roles because they're performance capture.

I still take work if I think it's good. If I like the script, I'll do it. If I don't, I won't.

I want to find the right projects. I'm not going to take just anything.

If a role has been too one-dimensional, I have turned it down.

I turned down as many roles that I thought were beyond my abilities as I did ones I thought weren't good enough.

The writers and actors on 'Friends' were notoriously particular about what made it onto the air.

I've always thought that whether I'm writing or not, I've gotta pick the best songs, whether or not they're mine. I'm not gonna sing them just because I wrote them. I've gotta find the best songs to make the best record I can.

I've refused roles because they're too simplistic.

I'm very particular about the kind of music that I record and sing, and it would be the same way about the kind of movies that I would do.

Every actress has a line she'll draw, where she'll say, 'This I will do and this I won't.' For me, everything has to be important to the story and the director has to be able to tell me why.

I have a repertoire of songs that I'm proud of, that I've written for my own band. When I do a cover, something that somebody else has written, I think about it very carefully before I sing that song. I have to really get behind it and understand it and like it. And that's how I pick roles. I don't want to play just anything.

I don't like to just grab any ol' role.

I'm not exactly in a position where I get to be super-picky about the roles I get. But I would also never want to be a part of something that I think is poor in taste or doesn't align with what I believe in.

No book I publish will be perfect, but I need to feel I've taken it as far as I can.

I'm very selective about my scripts and about how I am projected on the screen.

I don't sing songs on albums that I don't like.

I will not accept a role just because a big hero stars in it. I am not here to merely dance, run around trees, and be a glam doll.

I will not do a run of the mill kind of a film or role. I will not say yes to that.

I'm doing super quality control. I'll have five tunes that I think are all good - before I would've put out all five tunes but now I'm just putting out that one out of the five that I think is the banger.

Neil and I share a desire for great quality in our work. If we are offered projects, look at projects, or consider projects that don't have that quality, then we don't do them.

I accept offers only when people approach me with a good script, and all those experiences have been great.

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.

Quality means conformance to requirements, not elegance.

Quality is such an attractive banner that sometimes we think we can get away with just waving it, without doing the hard work necessary to achieve it.

We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.