Perceived Quality Quotes

When it's between the covers of a book, content is perceived to have literary substance - or more so that it might otherwise.

When you do a film like 'My Soul to Take,' and people think it sucks, that hurts. We put a lot of work into it, and it's a good film, but you go on.

Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.

I'm always surprised when people say, "Oh, it got such mixed reviews." I guess I didn't read them.

Water is free of charge. Why then do people drink Evian?

I buy wine according to the bottle design. After I get down the first glass it all tastes okay to me so I figure you go for something classy to look at on the table

It's hard to overestimate how much the perception of the quality of the V.C. firm you're with matters - the signal it sends to other V.C.s, to potential employees, to customers, to the tech press. It's like where you went to college.

There is a stigma attached to community colleges, and we do need to change the narrative.

Nobody remembers how long anything takes; they only remember how good it was in the end.

There's this belief that some things can be taken seriously in an intellectual way, while some things are only entertainment or only a commodity. Or there's some kind of critical consensus that some things are "good," and some things are garbage, throwaway culture. And I think the difference between them, in a lot of ways, is actually much less than people think. Especially when you get down to how they affect the audience.

It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired.