You cannot please everyone, and I think that what's important, ultimately, is to make sure you please yourself. If you start trying to please other people, you'll just go around in circles.
When I was first writing, my little prayers were, 'Please, please, please. Let something be published someday.' Then it went to, 'Please, please, please. Let somebody read this.'
Everybody that listens to something hears it differently from their own perspective. And you can't please everyone. Don't even try. Please yourself first and then try to please those people around you that you feel know what you're doing.
Please, please, please, please, please...,", squeezing his eyes shut because it somehow made the words more pure.
You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.
You've just got to trust your instincts and realize that you can't please all the people all the time. You've got to please yourself ultimately in the end.
You can't please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won't please anyone, least of all yourself.
I think one thing I've learned over the years is just that you're not going to ever please everyone, and the most important person to please is yourself.
As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you can't possibly please everyone.
You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself.
As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you cant possibly please everyone.
Please, please, PLEASE be yourself. If you catch yourself not, take a step back.
Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?
I've learned that you have to make careful choices because everything has an impact. I've also learned that you can't please everyone in life, so please yourself and figure out what really matters.
If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.
I'm not the greatest husband - I've got a girlfriend. It doesn't really please my wife, but then if I was looking to please her I wouldn't have a girlfriend. I mean she knows about it, and I guess she's okay with it. Plus my kids like both of them.