Elizabeth McCracken Quotes

There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you.

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.

None of us are perfect, and we all make mistakes. But the American people are a very forgiving people.

My dad's more three-dimensional than Opie Taylor or Richie Cunningham. He even has a temper! He's a real person. But some people are disappointed by that.

The best ideas are useless unless carried out.

Aren't all people flawed?

I feel this way about a lot of movies, that the characters are idealized versions of people. For better or worse, I am as fascinated with human flaws as anything.

Ideas are a dime a dozen, but people who put them into effect are extremely rare. Be the minority and make it happen!

Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who will work hard enough to bring them about.

You need to learn what people have done, but you need to learn where they have failed... Usually when they fail it is in the execution.

Basically it's the idea of celebrities being in the spotlight and just because you think that they should be perfect, that they're still human and they still have flaws just like everyone else. So that was the real meaning behind "Dollhouse", at least how it related to me because it's something I was annoyed with at the time.

He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.

People are basically irritating. Myself included.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who execute them are not.

It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort of executor of other people's ideas.

There's at least a hundred times more people with great ideas than people that are willing to put in the effort to execute them well.

People are human. There's such a premium today on being perfect. That's just not the way people are.

I think people are screw-ups, and even our greatest heroes are deeply flawed human beings. People make bad decisions for all the wrong reasons, and then somehow they'll do the right thing, and then somehow they'll save somebody, or they'll be compassionate. Horrible people can do wonderful things, and wonderful people can do horrible things.

So few people did good in their lives. It was depressing.

Even if you have no interest in starting a company, having the experience of having ideas and doing them, that's muscle to exercise because that's what people are going to want to see. That's what makes you different.

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

Some people are better imagined in one's bed than found there in the morning.

Fancy tortures more people than does reality

Dead people can be our heroes because they can't disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.