Mike Patton Quotes

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative.

I wouldn't want to get involved with a game that's a stinker - I can smell one of those a mile away.

Sometimes bad is bad.

Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.

I'm not sure we think it's a win to talk about what you're taking out.

This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump.

The deal looks bad and smells worse.

I watch 'Batman & Robin' from time to time. It's the worst movie I ever made, so it's a good lesson in humility.

There are more ways to make 'Room' badly than well.

If someone tells you he is going to make ‘a realistic decision’, you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

I told that dumb son-of-a-bitch not to go down there, I told him it was no place for the Chief of Staff.

There will always be times where you think, 'What went wrong? Why wasn't that one more popular?' You can't always figure that out, especially if you think you've done the best job you can do and was interesting to you. I mean, 'My Soul to Take,' I thought should have done much better, and I still like that film a lot.

What's overwhelmingly clear is 'Havana' didn't work for people, but why it didn't work I don't feel I can put my finger on in a way I can learn from.

People get up and say, 'I didn't prepare a speech because I didn't think I would win.' Well, that's dumb.

Being on the toilet stool is the grossest thing there is, to me.

Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.

An Obama administration desperate to strike a deal is likely to strike a bad one.

I don't want to carry the burden of a flop. I don't fall into that trap.

If you want rubbish, you will get rubbish.

I was disappointed with 'My Friend Pinto.' Everyone put a lot of effort into it but the final product was something no one was ready for. The story was altered and a lot of scenes were edited. I got a lot of flak for my performance.

Projects are usually undertaken to either solve a problem or take advantage of an opportunity. The probability that the project - even if precisely executed - will complete on time, on budget, and on performance is typically small. Project management is utilized to increase this probability. So in a sense, project management is risk management.