Moby Quotes

We wanted to wait until the music felt right. We didn't want to do it, just to do it. We didn't want to do it for money, I guess, is the thing that would have just bummed me out so much.

Nobody wants to make something that displeases people, but once you make a film, that's out of your control and you can't think about that. You just have to follow your head and make sure that you're satisfied by putting down what you intended.

All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.

I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.

I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.

I don't pay much attention to the press. My films always get good reviews and bad reviews. I just try to make the best film I can.

I don't want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn't improve what I'm trying to do. I figure, once I've done my job, it's none of my business.

There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.

I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and if it's any good or not.

When I write a book... it's the same essential approach to music as with books. It has to be something I want to hear or read. Hopefully the audience comes along, since that's the only way you can write righteously. I have to ask, 'What do I want to hear?' not 'What do people want to hear?'

I'm more critical of the films I make than anyone else.

I make movies that audiences like, that I'd want to see. That's all.

I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.

I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.

I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.

I'm a perfectionist, and I'm not going to let the world hear a record until it's ready.

When I create something, it's got to be special, and it can't just be to throw something out there because I feel like I'm Missy.

It don't matter who I'm working with. I just feel like I want to make the best record possible.

The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.

If I look at it and feel there is someone who can do it better, I won't do it. Whether it's 'Party Down' or 'Piranha 3-D,' I'm going to bring something to it to make it special.

Who are you writing this for? For a commercial reason, or because you want to make great art and give it to your fans?

I always have to have what I believe are the pillars of an album - songs which I can go back to and admire personally as a piece of writing.

I try to find a subject that is interesting to me and to the viewer both. If I can't, then I stop right there.

We always set out to just make a great movie.

You have to challenge yourself about the choices you make as an artist.