Frank Tashlin Quotes

I'm a perfectionist to a default. I will drive you crazy sometimes. When I'm recording, I will try something a trillion times to get it right.

I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Demand excellence.

What is once well done is done forever.

I've always been that person: If it gets into my head, I've got to do it until I get it perfect - a perfectionist's attitude.

I'm a perfectionist. I won't do a thing without trying to do it well.

You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.

I'm constantly looking for perfection.

It is about attention to detail and then the minutest detail on top of that. I am an owner, and yet I'll argue about the sign on the wall.

'Good enough is good enough' - that's never been acceptable for me.

It's like... to make a good record - I don't care who you are - it takes a long time and a lot of passion and a lot of attention to detail, right?

I'm one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I'm out of control with it.

We never settle for 'This is good enough.' It always has to be amazing because that's the kind of music we'd want to listen to, and that's the kind of music we want to give to other people.

I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I want to try it again and again, and a lot of times my fellow musicians have to hold me back and say, "Nah, I think we got it."

Perfection is very difficult to achieve, and perfection was what I wanted in McDonald's. Everything else was secondary for me.

It's not enough to do good. It must be done well.

You’ll never achieve 100 percent if 99 percent is okay.

I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.

Whatever you do big or small, do it well or don't do it at all.

I'm a perfectionist. I'm very critical, especially artistically.

Don't ever let good enough be good enough.

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It really is appallingly difficult to do something which is complete in every respect, and I think most people are content with mere approximations. Well, my dear friend, I intend to battle on, scrape off and start again.

I'm pretty hard to impress, and I'm pretty exacting, in terms of what I want from my props department and art department. We spend many, many hours going over visual research and finding the right artists to create the material.