Jeremy Podeswa Quotes

I'm just gonna do a podcast because it's mine, I can control it, I have complete responsibility over it, and no one can touch it.

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.

Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all.

Hollywood wants to own everything. I don't want to own anything. I don't want people just to make content, I want to empower and teach them to create content they own that they can exploit in any medium.

I think - more than anything, I think I'd really like to start producing and be in charge of the stuff that I want to see in the world and the stuff that interests me.

I want all of my films to belong to me.

I've loved the Internet space in terms of creative content control and ownership, the things I haven't had since I started as a stand-up comedian.

People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume.

I'm totally open to it being a movie or a television series or whatever, but truthfully, if no one wants to do it right, I'm also happy for 'Ex Machina' to only ever exist as a comic book.

Every show I've ever, you know, produced, essentially it's the show I want to watch myself.

A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important as the money, for some people.

The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.

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

I would like to shift more into writing for and producing people.

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

I just believe that whatever I post should be my content.

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something.

If I was going to do anything, I'd be a producer, only because I'd like to have a say in what gets made and what doesn't.

I need to find a way of retaining creative control.

I don't take story input from fans.

I was just finishing high school and entering college in 1988, when the Creator's Bill of Rights was drafted, and had already set my sights on building a career as a writer of comics. Discovering the Creator's Bill of Rights - in an issue of 'The Comics Journal,' if I'm not mistaken - I accepted it as gospel.

As you know, in America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio, so if they want to remake it they can.

And usually the studios they don't want you to have credit for your movies because they want to take credit for the movies because if you get credit for your movies they've got to pay you more.

I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.

I think that one of the most useful applications of the Creator's Bill of Rights is that it clearly indicates for creators what rights they have at the outset.