Shawn Crahan Quotes

I like being on a set where you can make decisions and everything is involved and are happy to work together to make the best work. For me, it's all about making the best work and creative people working together and all being respected and all having their opinions of what gives it the best quality is important.

I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers.

If I do what I really want to do, I'm not going to do a typical commercial Broadway show, so I'm going to write what I want to write.

The most outrageous shoe that I had to do was a shoe where the person gave me stones - precious stones - and say that I could do anything with precious stones.

As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.

You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price, but you've got to concentrate on how you create that artwork.

I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.

As an artist, the most important thing and the most special thing is when your intention shines through on the work.

I'm doing the kind of show that I would want to see.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

For me, working on original material is very important.

I just want to make TV that I want to see.

I started making films purely based on what I would like to see.

Fans are hungry for original artwork.

I make films that are what they are. Some people like them, and some people don't.

I don't make clothes for the critics.

I work extremely hard, but I love every minute of it. Although I couldn't work as hard if I felt there was a ceiling on anything. I spent £125,000 on four pictures for the sleeves for 'Overpowered,' and I loved spending it! It was like making a little movie.

With 'Haters Back Off,' I'm creating something that I want to make, and I'm not focused on, 'Is this gonna trend, is this gonna be popular?' I'm just focused on telling the story.

Rozay is an artist himself so he understands the importance of being true to your work.

I still see myself as a bit of a cottage industry. Being in a room creating stuff and seeing if anyone wants it, as opposed to going to work for someone.

Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.

I always feel when you work with an artist and whenever I work with a really good photographer, I try to give him or her their own artistic freedom because that's the way you get the best work or at least the most interesting work.

Those titles, Executive Producer or actor, are unimportant. I always try to approach my role as an artist. The first thing you want to do, that you attempt to do as an artist, is to have some sort of input into the material that you are working on. That is how my process begins; I say to myself: "I want to do this kind of work or I want to do that kind of work."

I don't want to be on the phone talking numbers and budget. I want to be creating a world.

I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.