Saba Qamar Quotes

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

I want to be my own artist and reflect my creativity.. I don't want to be turned into a pop princess; that's not who I am.

When I get to make a movie, I really try to make it on my own terms.

I am very much my own person and my own artist.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

I want to pave my own path artistically.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

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

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

I really don't think of my work in terms of a genre. I think of it in terms of what I want to say, what I think is cool, and what I'm good at.

I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.

Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.

I wanna take what I'm doing and create something around it as opposed to trying to fit into someone else's world.

All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.

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.

It's really tough to make a name for yourself without compromising and without fitting yourself into a real specific mold. When I made the choice that I would be involved in every aspect of music and not necessarily make music for radio or MTV, I was saying, 'OK, this is me. You decide who it is.'

Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don't need to get anybody's approval or validation.

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.

If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.

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

Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them.

Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this.

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

I make movies I want to see.