Neena Gupta Quotes

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible.

I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.

Definitely, doing my solo stuff, it's fun in a different way. I get a lot more say. However, there's a lot more work to do because I have to make everything happen.

I usually don't work with other people; I do the whole show myself.

I might do my own independent film, that my husband wrote for me, if all the ducks are in a row.

I don't know if most people know it or not, but I produce, like, 95% of my own stuff.

I'm very hands-on with my own music.

I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out.

And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.

I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.

When you're making a film all by yourself, that requires you to have quite a bit of a point of view in order for anything to get done.

I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.

I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself, to put a song across to an audience by myself.

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

I want to make my own movie.

I made my new album 'Colour Me Free!' in a week with my own money.

I don't think I ever got the hang of the writers' room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to - if I did something again, I think I'd want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does.

I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.

I had always wanted to run my own show and focus solely on the writing, and that's what 'Survivor's Remorse' has been for me.

I don't want to come and conquer American films or the American market. I just want to do movies that I care about, stories that I like.

My art and my creativities were totally something that was of my own heart and mind. I could never let anybody dictate to me what I should write and how I would write it.

If everybody wanted to follow the left side of the pallet like I had on 'Tusk,' there would have been no need for me to do solo work.

'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie' were the only films that I made totally on my own.

I've had a different kind of career on the periphery of show business. I've never been on any kind of corporate timetable whereby every six months I have to pop out a record like a pulping mill. I've called my own shots. When I get tired, I take time off.

I am an artist, and I will always be working. But a film should match my personality and should be primarily based on a woman for me to go forward with it.