Felicia Day Quotes

I won't read scripts because I have a limited amount of time. Why should I help other people do lame stuff when I can just go out and put on lame stuff of my own?

I've gotten to a point where I wouldn't direct someone else's material. It would only be something totally original.

For 'Paul's Boutique,' we had a lot more money and a lot more time. It was definitely more on our own terms.

I eventually want to write and direct and produce my own stuff.

We have to make some movies we have passion for, respect for.

I want to be choosier. I can't let quality take a back seat... not after 'Kaaka Muttai.'

For 'The Book Thief,' I wanted only one outcome, and that was for the director to follow his own vision, just as I had.

I'm not one of these writers who says, 'Oh yes, the next book is due out in one year and three days.' I just say, 'You're gonna get it when it's done. It's gonna be good, but you're not going to get it until it is good.'

I suppose we'll make money off our album and our singles and stuff, but, like, they were made as we wanted them, exactly with what we had to say, and done exactly how we wanted them, right? And, like, we didn't put them out to make money. We put them out because we wanted to do them, do you know what I mean?

I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.

There's no point in me meeting with a bunch of producers or studios, because I'll write my own scripts in my own time.

We are not frou-frou creative types. We have done both sides of the business and are constantly asking ourselves, 'How are we going to pay for this?' But the criteria is that it must fit with our world.

The critics are not writers - they're not a part of the creative process; therefore, they should not influence how I go about doing my next bit of work.

Every creator has to follow what they believe. That's the message I would love for every single executive to get, to clearly understand, and every single producer out there.

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.

I'd love more production houses to encourage artists to create what they want and not just churn things out.

The kind of work I do and the films I believe in, I had to take charge of making that kind of cinema.

I just write what I write, produce the music I produce and try to give myself a chance to stay true to the art form. If you try to rein in an art form, it can be hurtful to what you are making.

When directors tell me they want a song like one, I tell them no song should be like another. I don't listen to directors.

I really believe in not compromising your art. I feel like I've never compromised my art.

Solo, you don't have compromise. It gets back to what's great when you're a musician.

Some musicians feel they have to provide what their audiences expect. They lose the distinction between an artist and an entertainer. I am not an entertainer.

When I first started directing, I could have chosen a more lucrative path, with sitcoms and things like that. But I knew enough after the experiences I had in front of the camera that I was not going to do that, because I was just going to work on my own things or work with people I respected.

There's a difference between making the music for a check vs. what you think you should be doing artistically and creatively.

I don't make films for critics, and I'm not particularly interested in what they have to say, and they don't have a bearing on my audiences.