Adrian Tomine Quotes

I want to be able to go wherever I want to go, do whatever I want to do. I guard the material and the filmmaker.

If I only acted, I feel like I wouldn't have enough creative expression over my own sensibility, and also if I only acted, the notion of surrendering my fate and future to other people is deeply unsettling to me and it would make me uncomfortable.

I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.

I just make the movies I want to see. I've always been that way.

I just do things that I'm interested in making and work with the people I'm interested in working with, and it's very important for me to maintain the creative control because, otherwise, I just don't want to do it.

I always say I want creative control. A lot of people don't think about that. And that's what every artist should think of - being creative and not just a puppet.

I always felt like an outsider of the industry, and now I feel quite comfortable as an independent artist.

I love to work. It's the idea of having someone else tell you how to make your film or how to sell it - that's the part I can't really deal with. I would rather do 1,000 things that are work than deal with one thing that's a political problem.

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain't got to pry beyond that.

There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.

You gotta make the movie you want to make.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will.

The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job.

I got into an argument with my original publisher. They wanted me to do 'Kitty' and nothing else. I wanted to do lots of things, not just 'Kitty' books.

Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart!

I have the most fun writing and directing. And I always choose myself as the lead actor.

That's my actual payment, the fact that I can actually make something that I actually enjoy and put on repeat, and it's not related to anything else or anyone else's thoughts and ideas, it all came from me; I just love that aspect of it.

They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.