Mike Krieger Quotes

I don't really analyze my process. I do know that if it's not right, I won't move on. I'm tenacious to a fault about that.

Every time I make a new game, I put all of my effort completely into that game. It's like putting all your effort into a new child that's being born. Once the project is done, I can step back and look at it objectively, which is when I can see a lot of flaws. That's when I start to make a new game that tries to fix some of those flaws.

I think my tendency when working is to try and find what's lacking in my current project and then tackle that in whatever I do next.

I fix things all the time. Every time I do a solo, I re-check it and correct things that don't hit the mark.

Normal people … believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

I can't usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it's new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it's about function.

I be on some, perfecting my craft, just making sure the music is all the way there.

Having an idea is easy, courting one can be difficult.

I don't think I've ever worked on anything that wasn't way bigger than we expected. That's all the way back to working on fighting games at Paradox. Everything seems to balloon when more and more people get involved.

I do a project and then I forget about it because the release of whatever work you have done is not in your hand.

Creeping featurism is a disease, fatal if not treated promptly. There are some cures, but, as usual, the best approach is to practice preventative medicine.

If you're working on something and it's not coming together, it's easy to say, "I don't want to show this, until I've figured it out." But a lot of times you don't really solve the problems, and then you start getting into a bad situation because you don't have the time to fix it.

Web projects aren't done until I'm happy, or someone changes the password to the server. A formal release does not stop me from working on it more.

Most good work is a combination of parts you love and parts you could do better. My constant mantra is, 'Next time, next time, next time.'

Failing is part of my process. A new bit never works the first time. I figure I have to bomb 7 times to make it good. So I tweak it.

Creative ideas aren't like Jenga blocks, where they fall apart and you've got to start from scratch, though it can feel that way.

I shoot a scene, edit it, and then, two days later, I doubt whether or not it has turned out right. I reshoot a small part of it, go back to the first edit of it, and do all sorts of things.

Before I do anything, I practice it for a while, and then when I know it's the bomb, then I'm gonna present it to everybody.

One of Pixar's key mechanisms is the Braintrust, which we rely on to push us toward excellence and to root out mediocrity. It is our primary delivery system for straight talk.

I don't publish anything I haven't worked over 100 times.

As a breed, I think artists are never 100% satisfied with their work, and we will always want that little bit of extra time to put the final gloss on it.

Every one of our films, when we start off, they suck... our job is to take it from something that sucks to something that doesn't suck. That's the hard part.

It's always about the project itself than a character for me. It's all experiential.

I don't think you are ever really done working on something, especially if you can get back into rehearsal.

I think it's almost impossible to edit something to death. I think you can make things better almost indefinitely.