Charles Forsman Quotes

I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles M. Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family.

When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.

Writing is much more satisfying on a certain level than acting ever was. Because you're not interpreting someone else's original idea, you can come up with your own.

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

I draw plays every day.

In my first label Shrapnel Records I wasn't expected to do anything except the creative music that I wanted to do. I was my own boss, which is great.

I can make any film I want to make.

I always wanted to be in charge of my own career. I like having my own imprint.

I have to write the story I want to write. I never wrote them with a focus group of 8-year-olds in mind. I have to continue telling the story the way I want to tell it.

In a book, you can describe a scene and have any song you want playing on the radio and have any painting you want hanging on the wall. That was really freeing to me when I was writing 'Ready Player One.' I could throw in everything that I love.

As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control.

From a creative perspective, we've been very fortunate in that doing it the 'VGHS' way gave us unlimited freedom. Whatever we wanted to do, however we wanted to do it, we had that.

No offense to real jobs, but comics seemed a lot more fun.

If the story-teller is to nourish the roots of his culture, society must set him free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

The beautiful thing about being independent and having my own label is I can say whatever the hell I want.

I enjoyed doing the 'Tom and Jerry' cartoons, and if we had never done anything else, I would have been perfectly satisfied.

Ultimately, I think what I want from my career is to be able to create work for myself, and there's only so much you can do as an actor in a movie.

I wanna take what I'm doing and create something around it as opposed to trying to fit into someone else's world.

I have complete creative freedom. If I want to put a song on the album, there's no one stopping me.

I know it's a bit of an awful thing to say, but I really just make things up. My main goal is to make a picture that people find interesting to look at and that has my name on it.

That's why I made my record before I had a label. I put it out independently - in a way, out of fear - because I didn't want anyone to change it.

If I were wearing jeans, I'd be wearing the uniform of a cartoonist.

I feel very strongly as a writer and as a director it is not my job to crush the audience's imagination.

I am a greedy artiste. Wherever I will find good stories, I will do it.

For me, animation is the caricature of life. It's something that we create, from the ground up.