Cameron Mackintosh Quotes

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.

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

It's been so inspiring to have complete creative control and to just have fun creating and collaborating with people I admire greatly.

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.

One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.

I've gotten to a point where I wouldn't direct someone else's material. It would only be something totally original.

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.

If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.

I like the idea of not having to do stuff for the money, and if I want to, I can pick indie projects for the rest of my life and be quite happy doing that.

I worked with some directors, and it was really collaborative, and I was sort of writing with them. I was giving so many pieces of myself to their movies, I thought, 'It's about time I use my own voice for me, and establish my own voice.' So I knew I wanted to make films.

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

Netflix is amazing 'cause they trust the creator to do their job, and they trust us to do our job. They're really smart and just let us do our thing and deliver a great job.

I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it.

I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

To be given the reins of creativity is a beautiful thing when you're used to just showing up to a casting and standing there having clothes put on you.

My early experiences in animation taught me that following someone else is not a great idea.

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.

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

My dream isn't running a studio or doing anything managerial in any way, shape, or form.

I've been wanting to produce for some time because I want to have more creative control over the things that I do and not be victim to the whims of other people's desires.

If you paint a picture and I paint a picture, we each want to do it our own way. And we'll stand or fall on whatever we did.

If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.

I feel like I'm just trying to pave my own lane and just kind of make my own sound.

After I got back my career and my artistic freedom in 1982, my golden rule is the music must never suffer.

Ultimately, I think what I want from my career is to be able to create work for myself, and there's only so much you can do as an actor in a movie.