Matthew Fox Quotes

I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case.

I have a fun clause in my contract. If I'm not having fun, I can leave.

The thing is, the studio then forget that you're an actor and that you can do other things, and so since they pay you for that, they don't want you to do anything else.

I want to be able to manipulate and control my career from the creative side.

Hollywood is difficult to navigate if you have integrity, so I opted not to work if there wasn't enough to do in a role, which doesn't have to do with the role's size.

I don't do nudes. I don't do semi-nudes. I don't do cigarette shots. It took me a long time in the business to realize I didn't have to do everything people told me I should if I wanted a career.

I don't want to take anything that's coming in for the sake of work. I want to choose carefully, as I have done since leaving 'EastEnders.'

I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.

One of the reasons - I stopped doing films for about a year and a half because I felt that I was being somewhat used by producers that were trying to get their movies made within a certain budget range and not take care of me.

One of the privileges you have of living the life of an artist and creating your own world and everything is the fact that, in-between times, you can kind of spend them however you want. Because, you know, once you open up your candy store again, you're open for business. And you have to be responsible. You have to be available.

I don't ever want to have a job where I just punch a clock.

If you're making money, and you've hit your targets for five years, you don't need to demand a new contract.

I don't want to be like those guys that, two or three years into their contract, they do really good, and then they don't care.

The truth is that we have got to make America work for working people again.

A man's work and the conditions under which it is performed are tremendous factors in determining his character.

When you spend three months of your life doing a movie, it's important to enjoy yourself.

When it became clear that I wasn't going to have the opportunity to do any work on VR while at id software, I decided to not renew my contract.

I've always been able to work as an actor and support my family and did great jobs, and more often than not, I got to turn down jobs that I didn't really want to do for various reasons or refuse to work with people I didn't like - and there are quite a few.

It really was total heaven to be a writer. As a model or actor you are employed on someone's whim. As a writer, you are in control.

My job description? It is many things; it is a whole universe created around the things that I like.

I had to beg to get out of my contract with Capitol. They wanted me to work with big producers. I wanted to produce my music, and they weren't having that. I'm sure they were happy to let me go. I just didn't want to do what they wanted me to do.

I love having the control over the end result and not having to go through some committee to get something approved. I feel sorry for people, like actors, because unless you're Woody Allen or Mel Gibson, they don't have much say in the decisions that affect their work.

I did not necessarily feel that Hollywood was interested in what I wanted to do. They wanted me to do what they wanted to do.

I've really fired a lot of managers that had that mindset or publicists that had that mindset of, 'Oh, you need to go on a date with this person because it's going to help album sales.' No thank you. That's not my flow.

As long as I can make the films I want to make in decent conditions, I am happy.