Ken Burns Quotes

I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.

I can really write what I want. I can take time; I can do nothing for a year. That is paradise.

I couldn't be an artist who was told what to do, what to be, what to sing.

I just want to feel free. If someone feels inspired by it, then fine.

We got full artistic integrity and autonomy over what we were doing, and that was the main important thing that kept our band alive.

I've experienced a lot of creative freedom because I'm on a family label. It was nice to put out what I wanted to say and do what I wanted to do.

I just feel such freedom to do whatever. If a song's seven minutes or ten minutes long, then so be it - it's that long.

Metallica lives in a little bubble. We just do our own thing. We're not part of any trends or waves or fads. We can just do our own thing, all the time. It's a great luxury. I don't think we were really appreciative of it until recently, and really understood that it is what keeps us alive. It's great to be able to have the freedom to run around and do all this crazy stuff, and at all cost, avoid making another record, just to piss our managers off.

I am the freest author in the world.

There's a lot of creative freedom. Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.

Doing the podcast, the whole reason to do it is just because I can do whatever I want.

It's been exciting to be able to go forward with stuff without 10,000 people saying, It should be like this.

I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need the other half of the freedom, and that's freedom from - somebody saying, 'This is great. This is how I want you to do it.'

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.

I've gone places where they've told me what I need to do, what I need to say, who I need to be, what moves I need to perform. And at Impact I get to just be me. I have creative control to be me and do what I want.

For a long time I was free. I didn't belong to any type of studio, or any company. I kept a sort of freedom and a light touch.

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'm glad that in this sport you can write your own stories, and you don't have to worry about what other people expect out of you.

Stand-up is no bureaucracy. No one can tell me what to do or not to do.

I get to say 'no' to a lot of things. That, for an artist, is crazy.

I like artists to have some freedom.

As a writer, you are free.

It's nice to really have the freedom to write what I want.

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

I love the freedom to do whatever I want with style and not be put into a box.