Helen Thomas Quotes

When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.

In Hollywood, you're never any better than your last picture.

You're only as good as your last record.

I've walked out of films. But for every film I've ever walked out of, I've probably walked out of 500 plays.

When you're a writer, you pull your life into your work. My first love is cinema. That's where I want to be judged.

I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.

It's not a science when you are judging art, but we'd be remiss to say you can't look at something and say, 'This is more well done than that.'

Sometimes you can be one of the best, but you don't accept that if you don't get the ring or win the Super Bowl. There's a lot of good teams between the Super Bowl winner and other teams. Once the Super Bowl is over, we lump everyone into the other 31, and that's not fair.

I don't look for anything in particular, like a particular genre. It's all very much to do with the quality of the script and the character as well.

My liking for a team isn't based on just how good it was, but how good was it in relation to how good it should have been.

Great directors turn in mediocre work, and first-time directors turn in exceptional work. No matter how good a person can talk about what he wants, you never know. You just have to go with a good story and a script that you like and people that you like to work with.

This is something you learn as soon as you walk through the doors at Old Trafford: that you're never better than your last performance. You always have to improve on your last performance.

If you do a brilliant work and if the audience don't like it, what's the point.

I've realized my best and worst critic is my director.

When a film doesn't do well, people start doubting you as an actor.

For me, I want to be scoring goals. That's what I'm judged on, and that's what I judge myself on.

You're only as good as your last movie, period. It's a business.

Any of us directing at Pixar, whether it's our first time or not, feel a lot of pressure to not make a bad Pixar film.

If you are a plumber, there is an objective way to establish whether you put together a great piping system or not. Art is a bit more slippery than that.

We want to let our play be the judges.

When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one.

I guess there's just a part of me that's not very enthusiastic about finding myself ten years from now halfway through a story that may or may not be any good.

I want to be able to separate the average from the good and from the great. I want to separate the ordinary from the extraordinary.

Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.

I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that.