Anne Rivers Siddons Quotes

The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.

I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

At some point, I would like to start creating my own things. If people don't write the scripts I like, then I will do my own.

I can make any film I want to make.

I always wanted to be in charge of my own career. I like having my own imprint.

Independent films are very hard to get made, but I'm lucky enough to get them made, so I'm going to keep doing it. I like my independence. I like being able to tell a story the way I want to tell a story. I don't like developing it with a team. I like coming to a story and deciding whether I want to do it or not.

If someone, a director, tries to tell me the way to do something, I'm not good at adapting. I need time to go away and think about things.

I really enjoy the creative freedom that I get when I produce my own projects.

I had a lot more creative freedom back in the day.

I stopped making music for other people.

Attention, it just comes and goes. Since we don't have a major label, it's like, what are we gonna do next? You have to make your own decisions.

Honestly, the thing that I have found to be most useful over a long career, or maintaining a long career, is taking back the power at some point and self-producing.

I've avoided situations where I wouldn't have creative freedom.

I don't usually collab with producers, because I don't need to. I never have, because I don't want to break my style of how I do things.

The beautiful thing about being independent and having my own label is I can say whatever the hell I want.

I would design for anybody who gives me a free hand and who doesn't sit on my head.

I am not really interested in only showcasing my life or work but plan to produce, write and create work that is solely my vision.

When 'Siruthai' became a hit, there was suddenly a lot at stake. A lot of people were telling me what to do and what not to. But at some point, you realise that's not the way to go. Good or bad, you need to be making your own choices.

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

I have complete creative freedom. If I want to put a song on the album, there's no one stopping me.

Making an independent film is so great because you're your boss. And you have to be disciplined. You know? Because there's nobody telling you anything. But you have to kinda, you know, if you have an instinct to do something, you do it. There's nobody to run it by.

That's why I made my record before I had a label. I put it out independently - in a way, out of fear - because I didn't want anyone to change it.

Triple H and Shawn Michaels and all those guys are more than happy to let me be myself. They want me to do my thing.

In my first label Shrapnel Records I wasn't expected to do anything except the creative music that I wanted to do. I was my own boss, which is great.

When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'