Jonathan Kellerman Quotes

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

I have high standards I hold myself to, besides Christianity.

I threw my whole life and lived my life in a certain way to make sure that I would never violate any law.. certainly never any criminal laws.. and always maintained that most important to me was my integrity, was my character, were my values.

Sometimes you want things so bad you will kind of lower your standards, and I've learned that once you do that, it's really hard to go back, to get people to respect you and respect your craft.

I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me.

I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch.

You have to be true to what you believe in and do your duty.

I am very rigorous with myself.

Don't violate your own code of values and ethics, but don't waste energy trying to make other people violate theirs.

People have the right to say what they want, but as long as I can go to bed at night and look myself in the mirror, I'll be all right.

Honestly, if I was looking at myself and I cheated, then I'd just think, 'Wow, how disappointing, I actually thought you were better than that.' It's about me and about the kind of man I want to be.

I have always stuck to my guns about what I want from the work and what interests me. I've never been seduced down the evil path. The path of taking the money.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

I'll tell you something, and this is true: I've never been able to write a film which I didn't respect. I just can't do it. I'm very happy about all the films I haven't done.

I don't have many rules, but one of them is, 'Do not make a movie you yourself would not want to see.'

I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.

I'm constantly having to check my conscience about what I'm writing and the responsibility of what I'm saying.

I will always be my hardest critic. Nobody else will ever be able to come at something I do harder than I come at myself.

A personal code of conduct that you follow is far better than a social code of conduct that you are forced to follow.

That's a big thing for me, being a guy that upholds himself to a high standard.

My conscience won't allow me to do films I thought were bad but were going to make money.

I can't have double standards, so I do what I believe in.

You always gotta do the right thing: you never know who's watching.

I should not deal with things that aren't founded on ethical principles, because that's not who I am as a human being.

I can't be in a film that I wouldn't like to watch as audience.