Quality Control Quotes - Page 2

• The silliness-much of which is clearly intentional-is blended with some genuine grandeur. The Pixar touch is evident in the precision of the visual detail and in the wit and energy of Michael Giacchino's score, but the quality control that has been exercised over this project also has a curiously undermining effect. The movie eagerly sells itself as semitrashy, almost-campy fun, but it is so lavish and fussy that you can't help thinking that it wants to be taken seriously, and therefore you laugh at, rather than with, its mock sublimity.

  A. O. Scott

  Fun, Taken, Thinking

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• It's thought of as an eccentric thing for an actor to really try to maintain quality control through the whole career. Most people think, 'You just work. You just keep working.' And in some ways I wish I could be a guy who's just a workhorse.

  John C. Reilly

  Thinking, Careers, People

  "John C. Reilly: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. November 21, 2011.

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• That's absolutely true, but one problem with the digital revolution, which may tie into what I said earlier, is that there can be a collapse of quality. You may not have liked the decisions made by publishers in the past, you may not have liked the decisions made by magazine editors or newspaper editors in the past. At least there was some quality control

  William Monahan

  Past, Editors, Digital Revolution

  Source: collider.com

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• The establishment of a rating system, voluntary or otherwise, opens the door to an endless parade of moral quality control programs based on things certain Christians do not like. What if the next bunch of Washington wives demands a large yellow J on all material written or performed by Jews, in order to save helpless children from exposure to concealed Zionist doctrine?

  Frank Zappa

  Christian, Children, Doors

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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