James Marsh Quotes

I'm never really happy with anything I do.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.

No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it's not enough.

We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting.

It has happened many a times where I have taken a project and wasn't happy about it.

When I look at my films, all I see is everything that went wrong.

The problem with people is that no matter how good you are at what you do, it's never enough for them. There will always be someone to point out some flaw. Someone will always find something lacking in you.

I have not been a success, and probably never will be.

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

I can never tell if anything I do is really good. I'm always just slightly chagrined.

I'm never happy with my work. I always go back home thinking I could have done so so much better.

Sometimes it seemed like it was never good enough, no matter what I did.

I'm not satisfied with anything I do.

I have this problem where I'm never satisfied with what I do.

I kind of felt like I was never good enough. I always wanted more.

Basically, I'm a people pleaser who has a knack for disappointing.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

I often feel I'm a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see they expect me to be quick and witty, and I'm not at all.

I don't want to be a figure of disappointment.

It's tough never being right.

What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with.

I never fail to feel let down when I see myself on the screen.

This is the history of failure.