Mandy Patinkin Quotes

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.

I turned down as many roles that I thought were beyond my abilities as I did ones I thought weren't good enough.

Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive.

I'm a chef, I own restaurants, and there's a behavior in the kitchen you have to have.

Make sure you are clear about the expectations your boss has for you.

Usually, I concentrate on work for a certain time, and finish when I clear a standard I set myself. But with 'Mononoke,' the production was so drawn out, it took forever to finish to my satisfaction.

When you're trying to force things in a script, it seems like it's getting somewhere, but it isn't real or interesting. All the bad material you've written becomes an albatross around your neck. So I really don't like writing a lot of bad stuff, I prefer to just keep narrowing it down to stuff I think is solid.

I only want to be part of movies that I believe in and I have no regrets.

Editing is a lot about patience and discipline and just banging away at something, turning off the machine and going home at night because you're frustrated and depressed, and then coming back in the morning to try again.

You get better at the thing you do by having to explain it to someone else. That, I think, totally makes my work stronger.

I sometimes see People On The Internet decrying work-in-progress tweets and posts as worthless. 'Measuring output by quantity rather than quality is dangerous,' they say. 'More work doesn't mean better work!'

When you're coming up in the business, there are so many people giving you advice and people prepping you for interviews: what to say, what not to say. When you don't know the business, you kind of take all that on and say, 'This is what I need to do, and I need to do what people tell me to do.'

As a composer, I only give directors tunes I'm happy with.

Every one of our films, when we start off, they suck... our job is to take it from something that sucks to something that doesn't suck. That's the hard part.

If you work in a certain manner, you don't make mistakes.

Cutting improvisation is really hard, because things don't match, and you end up with some bad cuts sometimes. But we'd rather have the bad cuts and the great improv.

Don't worry about getting final cut, worry about making the best possible cut.

Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.

The general uncertainty about the prospects of medical treatment is socially handled by rigid entry requirements. These are designed to reduce the uncertainty in the mind of the consumer as to the quality insofar as this is possible. I think this explanation, which is perhaps the naive one, is much more tenable than any idea of a monopoly seeking to increase incomes.

Even the finest workman needs to inspect his work critically.

Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.

How can you expect someone to get a good day's work if they are interrupted all day?

Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality; when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eyewash.

At the end of the day, I don't release any records that I'm not proud to put my name on. I never got to that point.

It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.