Creative Merit Quotes

What motivates me is true talent, it's golden when talent acknowledge talent.

Copyright rewards originality, not effort.

Television is a business and, financially speaking, they have decisions and considerations that go far beyond the creative merit of the show. But at the same time, you'd like to believe in a man's word. When he shakes your hand and says he's going to stay with it, and doesn't, it's really frustrating in a way.

I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.

You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn’t a masterpiece.

I don't want to be just that transgender performer or that transgender musical artist. I want to create songs and art and have those be judged on their merit alone.

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

The word "art" does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.

If gaming were seen as an art, the important question would be not whether games are good for us but whether they are good, full stop.

Yeah, I'd say there's probably about a couple of hundred people I admire - but that has nothing to do with what a person does themselves. That's why I never mention these things. You can read a detective novel you really like, but it had no bearing on what you do yourself, you just think, "God, how this guy wove this together!" Or you get into the energy of it. Or you see a poem which makes a great statement about sentiment, but it's not sentimental.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

The work should talk.

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that.

The writer of 'The Red Road,' Aaron Guzikowski, deserves the credit. The fact that the dialogue is so understated is what makes this show so appealing, especially as an actor.

The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.

As far as the international industry is concerned, I don't think people care at all where you are from - if the work interests them.

I have an issue with the commercial aspect of moviemaking: I don't see why a movie can't make a lot of money and also be good.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.

For me, the only value a celebrity has, or any artist or actor or anything, is the things that they make, you know?

When you celebrate somebody's bad work on the terms that define their good work, how can that artist have anything but contempt for an audience that can't tell the good from the bad?

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.

If you write a good line, you write a good line, and the best line wins in television. It doesn't matter if you're the guy who gets the coffee or if you're the showrunner - best line wins. That's the beauty of television collaboration.