Stone Cold Steve Austin Quotes

I have a freedom that's incredibly valuable. Obviously my freedom is far smaller in scale than people like Zemeckis and Spielberg have here. But it's comparable. I can dream up a project, develop it, make it, control it, release it.

Anyone can put anything out at any point and make anything by themselves.

Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.

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.'

Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic.

My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat.

It's really nice to be able to do what I'm doing without having to compromise with another musician.

I never realized how much I cherished having creative freedom.

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 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.

From a creative perspective, we've been very fortunate in that doing it the 'VGHS' way gave us unlimited freedom. Whatever we wanted to do, however we wanted to do it, we had that.

I no longer enjoy drawing people's pets. I just want to draw what I want to draw and have people not tell me what to draw.

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

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.

That's what I feel like my music represents - having no limits or restrictions.

The genius must have his freedom and his independence.

There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.

I had a little more freedom when I started sampling because you could actually do what you wanted to do.

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

It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.

Sometimes I don't want to be in the confines of what a band seems to provide.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.'

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.