Seth Godin Quotes

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

If you've done a brilliant version it becomes something else.

The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'

Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

I just want to keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great filmmakers and great actors and just building on that experience.

The brilliance of Jill Soloway is that while some people will give you Season Two, plus 10%, she's just kicked it.

You can't buy vision, and you can't buy aesthetic.

It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's written or anything that's created wants to be mediocre. The natural state of all writing is mediocrity... So what it takes to make anything more than mediocre is such an act of will.

Don't think what's the cheapest way to do it or what's the fastest way to do it. Think what's the most amazing way to do it.

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

Different' and 'new' is relatively easy. Doing something that's genuinely better is very hard.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

For me, what is most important is the element of surprise. If I can surprise you with every film of mine, that is exactly what I am trying to do.

I do what I love, thank God. I get to make music and get inspiration through Judaism. I can see why people might be surprised, because it's not been done before. It's certainly not typical. People are always trying to wrap head their around it. But it's probably simpler than everyone thinks.

I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.

Well, you know, I feel like it's about a lot of things. The reason that I made it was because I thought it was really funny and unique and just a different genre.

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

I love when people have their own creative vision, when a person stands out and tries different things.

Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we're very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do.