Kanika Dhillon Quotes

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

I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.

I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

I really enjoy the creative freedom that I get when I produce my own projects.

It wasn't slung together by a producer and a publisher. We decided we were going to take hold of our music and let it evolve organically.

Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay.

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.

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a rock star, not an actor. It means I can do what I want on my own terms.

I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

The way I look at a solo project is, I create what I want with whoever I want.

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.

When you're in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing.

I have never been assigned a game, I have never made a game I didn't want to make. I've never done anything just to make somebody some money.

I have a freedom that's incredibly valuable. Obviously my freedom is far smaller in scale than people like Zemeckis and Spielberg have here. But it's comparable. I can dream up a project, develop it, make it, control it, release it.

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

I don't much like being directed. I enjoy being allowed to play.

John Waters has certainly gotten to a place in his life where he doesn't do anything he doesn't want to do. He's always been that way, but at this point, he's greatly respected for it.

I want to write and direct and kind of do my own thing.

To direct a sequel to somebody else's work is not interesting to me.

If someone, a director, tries to tell me the way to do something, I'm not good at adapting. I need time to go away and think about things.

I wasn't part of any movement. I was working alone, following my instinct.

I no longer enjoy drawing people's pets. I just want to draw what I want to draw and have people not tell me what to draw.

Honestly, the thing that I have found to be most useful over a long career, or maintaining a long career, is taking back the power at some point and self-producing.