Alison Bechdel Quotes

It is about attention to detail and then the minutest detail on top of that. I am an owner, and yet I'll argue about the sign on the wall.

I'm incredibly anal about everything that I do.

I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.

I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.

I do want people to have a sense of just the extreme level of meticulousness and care that goes into everything. I wouldn't expect anybody to catch all the details of what I'm doing. The level of obsession is so extreme.

I have never, ever met a performer that was a stickler to critical moments and moves as they fit. Savage was a perfectionist.

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

I'm a control freak with regards to certain aspects. I think you just have to be when you're making stuff in the world. You have to have a clear idea what you want.

I am someone who places great value on the detail. That was always the case, even in my days as a racing driver.

Really, I'm a neurotic perfectionist. Every single word in the script is the one that I want.

I'm obsessively detail-oriented.

I was something that is always hated in Hollywood - a perfectionist; nobody likes a perfectionist, you know.

I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing.

That was the big secret. Walt would do things over and over again, with no regard to money, to get things perfect.

As a director, we work ridiculously hard on every detail, and we do everything to the billionth degree, and mostly people notice nothing.

I always watch the work I do.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.

I like spending a lot of time fine-tuning all the small characters. I think it really pays off.

God is in the details.

I've always been very attentive to detail. It's a characteristic that drives some people crazy. But on the other hand, when people around me are sloppy, that drives me crazy.

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

There's no detail too small for me.

The details are not the details. They make the design.