Jon Hopkins Quotes

I have kept a part of Catalina Productions going, through which I develop a few projects just for me.

I won't read scripts because I have a limited amount of time. Why should I help other people do lame stuff when I can just go out and put on lame stuff of my own?

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.

As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain't got to pry beyond that.

I love acting, but being an actor for hire only serves so much, and then you want to fill your well up again and be charged by something else.

I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.

I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested.

It's great being your own boss, but then, you know, you make your own mistakes, you know, and you own them. You know, so it's empowering, and it's also humbling along the way.

I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.

I love what I do, and I don't think I'm the guy who can do, like, a movie a year and that's it. I don't know what I'd do! I've already put stuff independently on the Internet cause I'm bored! I just want to keep going!

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 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 am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

I like to have projects that belong completely to me. If done right, it can also pay better. But the majority of my projects are still destined for publishers.

It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.

I've done a few things on the side here and there, but there is not much reason to do so in a sustained way. I'm generally able to say what I want to say within the context of Weezer.

I'd done a ton of movies here in Hollywood, and I realized that every movie I'd done was somebody's else's work and someone else's vision.

I'm not looking to be the King of Comedy, or the King of Hollywood. I just want to be able to keep making stuff that I'm into and have the opportunity to challenge myself with, wearing different hats.

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

It's so amazing that you can give somebody like David Fincher 'House of Cards,' and he can do whatever he wants - Netflix doesn't say, 'Oh, you can't do that,' or, 'We need a subplot here about this.' It's pretty neat that it is allowing the creatives to be creative.

I've been able to become an entrepreneur and an independent artist.

We have full creative control, we have a giant audience that loves what we do, and we can make whatever we want.

There's no way I'm going to write for other people.

The eight months I took off between 'Teen Vogue' and 'Lucky' afforded me such amazing opportunities, and I learned so much from so many different people - the brands that I worked with, the companies that I was consulting for.

I am happy writing and being a producer not a director.