Mackenzie Davis Quotes

When I get to do whatever I want, I'm perfectly happy. I've found that the best scenario is that I just do what I do, and if somebody wants to be part of it, they should work as a conduit for what vision I have. They should help me complete the universe.

I'd love more production houses to encourage artists to create what they want and not just churn things out.

Every show I've ever, you know, produced, essentially it's the show I want to watch myself.

I'm currently trying to direct my own material.

All any artist can do is please themselves.

I'm on a single track here - I work to direct what I want to see onstage. I basically have been feeding my own needs - to be working on a specific project at a specific time, and fortunately more often it works than fails.

For me to be able to punch above my weight creatively, to actually take a stand for what I was doing, I had to take on everything. I had to be the person who says, 'I wrote it. I directed it.'

If I was going to do anything, I'd be a producer, only because I'd like to have a say in what gets made and what doesn't.

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 don't want money to ever drive my career. I want my career to be driven by what I want to do in art.

I just make the movies I want to see. I've always been that way.

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.

Nobody is really going to bring my vision to life like the way that I am. Before I was doing my own music videos, it was not really my vision.

The only reason I write is that I feel I have to. Being the creator of a project puts me in a much better position to do the things I want to do.

I have a particular taste, I do films according to it and promote it accordingly.

I am working with writers and producers to have a more proprietary relationship over shows, having more ownership and creative control.

I think every artist wants to create something, on their own, without any boundaries.

When I started, I was 23 years old directing my own music videos; I'm co-producing on my album; I'm hands-on with everything. I'm more than just a pretty boy: I'm an artist. I'm not saying I'm a hip-hop music artist, I'm an artiste.

I'm focusing on writing the best story I can write. Which means I'm doing everything I can to give the artist within me as much power as possible.

The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.

I like working with directors much, because I want to be able to give myself completely to their vision. Otherwise I would only do what I could do, again and again. I want to be taken by someone in a different direction.

I have been in situations where actors are treated like robots: say the lines, say it like this, we don't have time for conversations. That is a terrible position to be in as an artist. You feel used.

Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.

I didn't want to become this stiffened - and that was just a personal choice, at that time. And, the idea was also to go to film first, get enough notoriety in film that I could interpret some of the opera stuff the way I would want to interpret it.

The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision.