Chris Milk Quotes

Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.

Yes, it's important to make things great, and you can certainly do this by upgrading over time, but good and profitable is better than perfect and never done.

I don't really analyze my process. I do know that if it's not right, I won't move on. I'm tenacious to a fault about that.

In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.

I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

I put so much pressure on myself to raise the bar with each and every project. I treat it like every film is my last, and I make sure I pour everything I have into every film I make because if I'm not trying to improve, someone else will.

When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.

As a game creator, I'm not 100% satisfied when looking back at the previous game that I released.

I just want to give people the best album that I possibly can.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

I don't think there's ever a point when you turn to yourself and go, 'Yes, I've made a success of this career path.' You never feel like you've done your best work. You always think you could be better.

I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.

You have to develop your whole game to completion.

I try and get it right the first time. I may rewrite a sentence four or five times, but I rarely go back and kill a whole page and rewrite it.

I fix things all the time. Every time I do a solo, I re-check it and correct things that don't hit the mark.

I'm always in search for perfection. If it's not perfect, I'm back to the drawing board.

It's really difficult for me to sit and watch anything that I do because I always think about what's there, and what there could be to make it even better.

You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.

What keeps me up is always raising the bar, and what makes my team happiest and also most worrisome is I'm always asking for more.

I think anyone who makes products has this simultaneous joy and, almost, shame looking at it. You look at it all day, and all you can see is all these things you want to make better.

We talk a lot about operational control, and that's having a better understanding of who's coming in and who's leaving, what the threat really is. We're never really going to get that.

When I was a student and rushing to finish a project, my gut instinct was usually to keep adding all kinds of features. It's a way of papering over the fact that you haven't quite nailed your concept yet.

How do I feel when I look back at prior work? Hmmm. I think, 'I tried to do the best I could do. It's not perfect. It will never be perfect.' And then I think, 'I want to try again.'

Always put out content that you are 100% happy with.

If I'm not happy with the quality of something I'm working on, I won't put it out. That does not mean that others won't question the quality.