The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best…

I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.

— Sting

The only features I've done have been on the lower-budget end, for what they were. It's really all about getting the best people aboard…

— Mick Garris

The books we enjoy as children stay with us forever -- they have a special impact. Paragraph after paragraph and page after page, the…

— Sid Fleischman

“One's best work comes when we are fully alive, happy, and inspired.”

— Eric Schiffer

To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have…

— David Bowie

I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked…

— Kim Kardashian

We enjoy what we do and, for me, playing football is the best work in the world.

— Joao Moutinho

You and I are stymied in our own creativity. We can only create as sub-creators, and even then our best work is only sub-creation.

— Matt Chandler

There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition…

— Kathleen Kennedy

Hope for the best and work for it.

— Deval Patrick

All I can do is focus on doing my best work.

— Sam Ryder

I was wondering if the best was behind me, had the high point of my career already happened. Then I saw what Manolo had…

— Patrick Cox

The only thing I can do is wipe my arse, brush my teeth, turn up and do the best work I can.

— Tom Hardy

The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.

— Steven Sinofsky

There should always be that leeway because if you think of your character as sort of absolutely fixed, then you just try and find…

— Lenny Abrahamson