Mira Nair Quotes

There are no rules when I'm making stuff. That's why I'm glad I'm not signed. No one's telling me I got to drop this type of single or this video.

I'm creating the kind of games that I like right now. I'm not being held back by technology.

You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure.

I'm making the music I want to make, in my own space, and it's just incredible to be able to continue to do that.

Networks like Adult Swim allow artists to be artists and allow their vision to come through without a lot of tinkering. I worked on 'Moral Orel' and 'Mary Shelley's Frankenhole,' and they bothered us very little. They very, very seldom came to us and said 'Change this,' or 'You can't do that,' or 'We'd like to see this.'

I want to be as creative as I want. I don't ever want to have to compromise; I don't ever want anybody ever to tell me what to do, I don't ever want to argue with somebody because of my vision.

In my first label Shrapnel Records I wasn't expected to do anything except the creative music that I wanted to do. I was my own boss, which is great.

My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.

Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.

I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.

I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.

The way I look at a solo project is, I create what I want with whoever I want.

I don't do commissions and I like the freedom to create what my heart or mind tells me to.

The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

My art side is free and there are no strings attached.

I sometimes listen to music I made and find it to be something I wouldn't want to buy from a store, if there was a store. When it's like that, you have to make what you want to hear.

I'm always looking for a reason to say no when I'm approached about a big studio tentpole because your fear is will you be consumed into the anonymous machine, and it will suck out any specificity and point of view that you might hope to express.

You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.

The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff in your life, write about a lot of stuff and not edit yourself. That is a great lesson to learn for anybody that writes or creates in anyway, to be able to make something without being good or bad.

I don't want to have the bounds put on me in terms of mediums.

I'm lucky enough to exist in 2018, where I have a record label that's like, 'Write whatever you want to write.' I don't have to hide anything.

I just don't feel limited by genre.

One reason I think I am able to work with such dark material is the fact I was never really discouraged from making this kind of work.

My ethos is musical freedom: to create whatever I want.