Quality Evaluation Quotes

I don't pay attention to the ratings.

I've always felt, and I think I'm qualified to say so because I've won a few awards, that it's a terrible shame to put something in competition with something else to be able to sell something.

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all other qualities. It is the ne plus ultra of the intelligence.

The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.

For something to be profitable doesn't necessarily mean it's the best thing in the world for the director. You judge a movie by different standards - I've worked on comedies, and now I've worked on superhero movies, and the reviews are almost parenthetical in both of those genres.

Who's to say what's a good voice and not a good voice?

I'm very happy with the response for everything I've done, but, you know, sometimes you get things like, 'Oh, 'Spaced' Series One wasn't as good as 'Spaced' Series Two.' Or 'Shaun of the Dead' is not as good as 'Spaced,' or, 'Hot Fuzz' is not as good as 'Shaun.' Or, now, 'The World's End' is not 'Shaun of the Dead.'

I feel like when I get into most rooms, melodies come really easily to me, and they sound good in my head. I never really know until I hear the song back and it's finished if it actually is good.

An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious.

Movies are great fun and wonderful when they're good. But you never get to see them till six months after they're finished. So you never get a sense of whether they're really well liked or how good they are. And you don't really know what the finished product is going to be like, because it's a director's medium.

In fact, in some ways, I actually feel much more confident about the quality of Carousel than I do about The Cottage Builder's Letter: probably because of its cohesive nature.

Assessing management quality is clearly one of the most important aspects of an investment decision.

You know a good board when you see one.

I find that when you read a script, or rewrite something, or look at something that's been gone over, you can tell, like rings on a tree, by how bad it is, how long it's been in development.

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.

I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.

I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.

Sometimes you'll write while listening to a piece of music and think it's great, but then you'll go back and read it without the music and go, 'This sucks.'

I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.

Reviewers are entitled to say if they liked the screenplay, performance, and execution of a film or not. But when they say things like the film doesn't cater to a certain audience, it leaves people wondering if they should watch it.