Aidan Turner Quotes

I love having the control over the end result and not having to go through some committee to get something approved. I feel sorry for people, like actors, because unless you're Woody Allen or Mel Gibson, they don't have much say in the decisions that affect their work.

Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.

You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.

Actually, I get a little say in what my character would or wouldn't do.

I enjoy being in control, having a lot of creative control.

I need to find a way of retaining creative control.

It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.

I think I veered towards filmmaking because there's more of a sense of control in it. You're not waiting to be picked. That said, in film school I acted in probably 6,000 student films because no other filmmakers knew anyone who wanted to act. It was all a big beautiful snake eating its tail, progressing along the way.

No one touches me when I write my story, unless I hire you to or I allow you to.

I have to speak for myself. As far as videos go - casting, the artwork, everything - I'm completely hands-on. You have to be if you want your points across.

I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.

Why hire these geniuses if they're forced to stick with the script? You want to empower your actors as collaborators.

They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a house and coming back three years later and saying, 'Paint it this color!'

Change is debilitating when it is done to us. Change is exhilarating when it is done by us.

Now the power is in your hands!

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 don't suffer the decisions the studio world makes.

The only way I was going to come back to the Disney Channel was if I was in a position of more power.

With everything I do, I'm 100 percent involved. I don't really let anyone just take over and hear what's going to go on. I like to have full creative control, pretty much, and really be involved with everything.

I don't have much power to make many films, but I do have the power in what roles I choose.

Some artists don't want to be involved in anything outside the performing. They'll say, 'You make the decisions and tell me what to do.' I want to be in on all of it. If there's a meeting where commitments are made that I have to carry out, I want to be there.

I have people telling me what I can and can't do, what music I can and can't make.

As an actor, you never want to feel like a tool. You never want to feel like, "Hey, just come here, say this, stop here, look this way," and that's it. You want to have a little input.