Suzanne Farrell Quotes

I have to believe that I know what's best for me. For instance, I choose all my songs. I never record anything I don't want to record. No one tells me what concerts to do.

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.

That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.

All the artists out there, I ask you and beg you: Take over your ship. It's your career. It's your life.

You are fully capable of deciding your own destiny. The question you face is: which path will you choose? This is something only you can decide.

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

Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don't need to get anybody's approval or validation.

There is something really nice about learning that you can take the reins of your life and your career.

Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.

I enjoy making the decisions.

If I only acted, I feel like I wouldn't have enough creative expression over my own sensibility, and also if I only acted, the notion of surrendering my fate and future to other people is deeply unsettling to me and it would make me uncomfortable.

I think a lot of people would rather have more control over their life than less.

I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.

I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.

Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.

I like characters that make choices and try to drive their own fate.

We are all the writer-director-star-producer of our own life. We see life through our own eyes.

I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do.

I just have a way about me where people know that they don't tell me what to do, they kind of just wait for me to do it.

You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.

Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.

My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

If you really have your own identity you'll keep on doing what you think is really right for you, and you'll also understand the next step you want to take.

I just kind of feel like it's my choice to do what I want to do. And my agent, he's totally with it. He tells me, 'You can turn down any audition you don't want to.'