Katie Aselton Quotes

I like being free to take on any project that inspires me and to trust that the work will speak for itself.

It was important that I got my own voice out there in the world. I'd used it on other people's films, collaborated, and I thought, 'You know, I can do this myself.' That was more important than anything else.

The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it.

Honestly, I never felt like I wasn't an artist on my own. I always felt like the music I made was mine, whether it was part of a collaboration with people.

I make the music that I want to make and make the show that I want to make. If you like it, you come. If you don't like it, you don't have to.

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.

If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.

'Juno' really changed things for me and I get a lot of screenplays come in now, but I like to self-generate and I like to kind of pursue my own ideas. And I think the more personal the better.

I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.

When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I wanted to write, and if 10 people wanted to hear it, that's fine.

I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.

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.

I just want to make good films on my own wherever I can.

I am proud being an artist who takes risks, who would walk off a cliff artistically. I won't settle for commercial reasons.

Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.

When I make movies, I don't ever go out there to please anyone other than myself. I never try to make a film for the masses. I just try to tell my story.

All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it.

I don't make films for other people; I make films for me.

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

My films, no one else will do.

I'm not looking to be the King of Comedy, or the King of Hollywood. I just want to be able to keep making stuff that I'm into and have the opportunity to challenge myself with, wearing different hats.

I just make the movies I want to see. I've always been that way.

Create something for yourself that you feel proud of, that you are in control of, that gives you a better understanding of the type of artist you want to be.

I didn't have time to be anybody's muse; I was too busy rebelling against my parents and learning to be an artist.

Being signed to a major label was never an option because I knew having the time to find out who you are without pressure from other people is so important.