Maggie Gyllenhaal Quotes

I want to highlight this, that to make meaningful cinema, we really need an enabling environment and freedom to express.

I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to write.

I prefer to write and draw in the privacy of my home and with total freedom and then take it to the lion's den.

I don't think music can be held. I don't think artists can be put into boxes or places. It's all about creating and making the best music you can.

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.

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

I am a poet; I am not a worker. I need to be free.

When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.

I think, like any artist or any writer, I just want to have that pure freedom of expression and of thought - the freedom to explore and move in unexpected ways.

I keep a band of great young people around me, and we're not musically restrained. It's not about 'Let's do it correct' but 'Let's do it right.'

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.

Web series are a way forward. It is a space where creative minds can express themselves without the fear of censor board.

It's so nice to be totally artistically free.

If the story-teller is to nourish the roots of his culture, society must set him free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

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 love this freedom that has been given to me as an artist to express myself.

When I started off as a choreographer, I had to do songs, which I may have wanted to do differently, but directors had their own inputs to give. But now, I take liberty to decide my own dance steps as well.

It's nice to have the support and infrastructure to do what I want creatively. That's kind of a rare thing to find.

I try to stay away from any genre. I like to just make music, and it just is what it is.

We need to give artists a lot of free room to create.

So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.

If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice , in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify.

There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists alone. If you are a true artist, you will have a very finely tuned moral mechanism.

My greatest accomplishment is the freedom for doing what I want to do with my music...I love my freedom so I'm happy I am a free artist.