Gerald Finzi Quotes

The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.

I have always believed in quality work.

Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.

Quality. That's the key. Everything I do, I want it to have that stamp that people like Jay Z, for instance, have on all the things they touch.

If you're going to do a thing, do it fully so that no writing you give the world misrepresents you - so that nothing you put out there is like a sad regift you couldn't throw away and had to find a place for.

Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea that you should give in to things that make no sense because other people do those things and you want to appear reasonable, you are on a path towards mediocrity.

It's important to always do your best work, no matter what the film is.

I never compromise with my work.

I always try to write the best I can.

I find mediocrity hard. I find that whole area difficult. I'm a very passionate person; I care very much about what I do. I believe I give it a lot, so it's gotta be good; otherwise, what's the point?

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

Commit yourself to quality from day one... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability.

I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.

When you have had a taste of excellence, you cannot go back to mediocrity.

Just because 'Planes' is an animated movie doesn't mean I don't take my work seriously. You can always push yourself to be better.

If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that's just the way it is with me.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Something I've learned is that it actually takes a lot of work to make something great.

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.

If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

I just cannot take mediocrity. I just cannot take it on any level.

Quality is everything to me, and I perfect everything I do.

Every condition must be favorable, or I do not work and will not.

I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.