Quality Judgment Quotes

I think everyone's inherently snobbish. Things that are very popular are not taken seriously, because the snobbish side of one says, 'Well, if everyone likes it it can't be that good.' Whereas if only I and a couple of other people like it, then it must be really something special.

It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good.

Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.

You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.

I am well aware that a chef is only as good as his last meal.

On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.

If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

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

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.

One of the things that we're all struggling with is how to judge the quality of the value-added experience of an educational course or year. I don't think it's impossible to do that, but it's difficult.

If you want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a good movie. If you don't want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a 'Twilight' movie.

Mass appreciation doesn't always equate to something good.

I don't think cinema is big or small. It's just good or bad.

Writers who do crap work believe they have turned in spun gold and all their little darlings must be defended.

I know what a good movie is.

Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.

I wouldn't do the movie unless I thought it had a chance to be good.

You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.

People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they are. And if they end up not being any good, I don't have to keep using them.

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.

"This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better."

On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.

My main concern is quality and I think there is quality to be found in all categories of filmmaking.

I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air.

I go through a lot of bad stuff, because most of the stuff that's written is pretty bad. But occasionally something comes along that's good, and I want to do it.