Hari Kondabolu Quotes

At some point, I would like to start creating my own things. If people don't write the scripts I like, then I will do my own.

I've never really felt comfortable co-writing. I usually go at my own speed, you know.

If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.

Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research help, but mostly I've done those completely on my own.

I've gotten to a point where I wouldn't direct someone else's material. It would only be something totally original.

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.

Within reason, I can write what I like and spend as long doing it as is necessary. That is a luxury beyond price.

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

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'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

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

I worked with some directors, and it was really collaborative, and I was sort of writing with them. I was giving so many pieces of myself to their movies, I thought, 'It's about time I use my own voice for me, and establish my own voice.' So I knew I wanted to make films.

When I'm making a song that's very Grimes, it just feels very insular and it feels weird to have someone else do something on it.

I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

One thing I like about trying to write is that I can possibly write myself a role. Otherwise, you're at the mercy of whatever roles are out there that people are willing to give to you.

I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.

I could make a whole album with no one else involved at all. It would be a total, unadulterated expression of myself. Because whenever you have others playing on a project, their influence becomes a part of it.

I don't write about anything I don't want to write about. I like to think I could write about anything pretty much that I chose to. I have been asked to write songs about specific things, and I've always been able to come up with the goods.

I won't read scripts because I have a limited amount of time. Why should I help other people do lame stuff when I can just go out and put on lame stuff of my own?

I love the creative process, of getting to create your own show or your own movie, whatever it is you want to do, and have the resources to try and make that happen.

I think that with the proliferation of writing programs, people tend to forget that you also have to get used to working alone, and you have to be your own support.

I wrote four novels under the name Amy Silver. The first one was commissioned, and I was given basically the whole plot and the characters. They told me what to do, and I went straight away and did it. After that, I continued, and I was coming up with more my own ideas, although they did steer me.

When I was on Disney, in the back of my head, I wanted to do - not even for anyone else, just for me - I wanted to do something that was independent. And maybe a little darker.

I write all of my material. It's all me.