Wong Kar-wai Quotes

I don't think anything less than perfect, even though I'm a human being. The way I work and go at things is to better myself in perfect terms.

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

Commit yourself to quality from day one... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

I put so much pressure on myself to raise the bar with each and every project. I treat it like every film is my last, and I make sure I pour everything I have into every film I make because if I'm not trying to improve, someone else will.

I can't leave the studio until everything is as it should be. And I can't put a record out unless I am completely happy with it. I never want to be at a signing and hear my album playing and think, 'Oh no, I could have done that top note better.'

I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

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

I've always gone for a kind of perfection.

I would say that I don't make music quickly; like, my process has been very slow, and my bar is very high, and I don't really rush to make music just to get something out there.

I avoid seeing my films as far as possible because if I don't like anything, I can't change it or do it again.

I used to set out and do a film and say, 'This is going to be the biggest film I've ever done.' But that's not the right approach. The approach should be the work.

The philosophy at Valve and Gearbox is that if things can't be done better, they shouldn't be done at all.

I always try and be perfect in practice.

I had this creativity always with this will for perfection, and I always said to myself, 'Look for what's best.' 'That's your goal, your driving principle.'

I don't want to put out something I'm not psyched on just because I finished it. That's the stupidest reason to do something, really. I want it to be up to my standards. I don't want to put out something I wouldn't listen to.

I'm a perfectionist. I'm very critical, especially artistically.

I don't like to shoot too many movies since I like to do them well.

It really is appallingly difficult to do something which is complete in every respect, and I think most people are content with mere approximations. Well, my dear friend, I intend to battle on, scrape off and start again.

It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.

If you're a perfectionist and you know you're about to do something at which you cannot be perfect, then that is daunting because you know what your heart is like and the way you approach your work.

I think that, right now, I am travelling in many different directions in my mind, on where I wanted to be. So much is wantin' to go back, but I still gotta move forward. But I think it's just that I'm my worst critic at all times, you know? And when I make somethin', it may be five or ten cuts later before I actually call it what it is. I've always been that kind of artist. I'm gonna put myself through the sweat for it, because I think, as an artist, that's what made me iller, is the fact that I didn't wanna just put out anything and everything. It's just a process, you know what I mean?

Never be comfortable.... .with just good enough.

Success is walking out of here with the title, and anything less is not good enough in my book.

If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing.