Marti Noxon Quotes

Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.

Several record companies had rejected my song 'Owner of A Lonely Heart' on the grounds it was 'too left field.' I never create to make a hit just to satisfy some record company executive's quarterly profit statement.

The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture.

I try to steer away from doing something that's just commercial instead of sticking to a good script.

I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.

Most female artists - to do what you have to do and to be as honest as you have to be, to be as selfish as you have to be, as tunnel-visioned as you have to be to make art, not entertainment - you can't compromise, really.

It's funny, but no matter how good an artist is, it's not until he stands on his own two feet and sticks to his guns that things are going to come together.

We've always operated under the belief that you could run a video game business as professionally as you could run a consumer packaged goods business, and you wouldn't diminish creativity.

You can't expect to connect with everybody, and that's all right. The more I make films, I'm learning that you don't have to make films for everybody. A film can be made for a smaller group of people than that, and it still warrants an existence.

I wanted to create a body of work that I was proud of. It's come from honesty and integrity, without forcing anything from myself, the ideas had to come instinctively and organically. Whether that translates to people in that way, it's kind of out of my hands now.

I don't feel I have to be Jackson Browne. Still, I like to say something.

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

Record companies tell me to play something more commercial, but I don't want to do anything else.

The definition of an artist, for me, is someone who is quite selfish about their creativity.

Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist.

We spent a couple of years trying to be what we thought people wanted us to be, what the press thought we should be, doing what the company wanted. Finally we just said 'Sod it. This is what we do best. We're best at making pop records that people enjoy and having fun and entertaining them.'

I want to be an artist, not be in the business of making hit records. Once I figured that out, everything became clear.

I would never make a film because I think it's going to be a box-office success.

I look at the big picture and try not to create with ego.

I think, in the middle of the '90s, I made a couple of records where I tried to figure out what I thought the radio wanted from me. They weren't my best records by any stretch of the imagination. It didn't take me too long to figure out, 'Whoa, back up, dude. Just go back to following your heart, and it will all be OK.'

Writing is about bringing something from inside you that you're trying to say, and not just trying to say something to please someone else.

I think one of the studio's characteristics is to embrace wholeheartedly what we feel is interesting; what we perceive to be worthwhile, cool, or beautiful; and to place these ideals at the foundation of the games we make.

As an artist, what you do represents who you are. Coming from a genuine, honest place - that's what I'm trying to do.

As an artist, you have to do what you feel passionate about. It has to be something you can connect with.