Creative Flaws Quotes

One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.

I wish I could do a lot of things different. I'm not going to tell you what they are, but if I had a list of all my films right now, I'd go, 'Okay, I'll cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out.' Really. But I've made over 40 films. How can I not have some losers in there?

I must be honest and say that I was under the fascination of films. I was fascinated by all films, even the words of them. If I was to do a more-precise analysis of the situation, I have to admit that I was more entertained by the bad films than the good ones. Because when something is beautiful, it is there; it is finished; it is done. It doesn't have to be touched or be worked upon.

Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.

One of the things that wrong with pictures today, I think, is that so many of the people making them started out wanting to.

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.

Perfection often creates such a flawless surface that there's no place for the audience to enter into a piece, while the idiosyncrasies of individual style are like windows into the singer's heart.

We have always made mistakes, but the greatest mistakes are the poems we have written.

Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the most flagrant blunders. Entire schools have been founded on misinterpretations of certain aspects of the masters. Lamentable mistakes have resulted from the thoughtless enthusiasm with which men have sought inspiration from the worst qualities of remarkable artists because they are unable to reproduce the sublime elements in their work.

What I like about film is it explores imperfections.

To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.

Well there's a lot of machines making music today too so you should expect perfection from them! Other than that it's humans programming it which is actually why i still like it. But yeah, that sounds about right. Now what I've got to do is I've got to stop expecting it of myself.

A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing even its faults have become virtues.

I've written plenty of scripts that sucked.

Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker.

To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.

The electric guitar's a pretty cheesy thing when you think about it, still working on those bits of wire and magnets for its sound. It's all of the things that are wrong with it that have made it the unique instrument it is.

I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?

I'm really quite normal. My imagination has some serious kinks in it, that's all.

If one of my romantic-comedy colleagues had written and directed 'Love Actually,' they would have been torn limb from limb. I thought it was awful, contrived, dreadful. I could see every twist and turn. I thought it was despicable. It was the writing that got me.

I need weird breakages to happen for music to feel true to life, and I think that also applies to good film scores.

A writer's temperament is continually making him do things he can never repair.

There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.