Genndy Tartakovsky Quotes

I think television keeps on being a place where writers can go, and if they're successful, they can have their way, and they can have creative freedom.

I really have the American dream licked.

I'm living the American dream.

There's a lot of creative freedom. Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.

When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.

There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure.

I need to have a great deal of control and the ability to share my control with my collaborators and grant them the freedom and the quality of work I think these people deserve. If I don't have those elements, I walk away.

There are great advantages of making things on the independent market. There's freedom and control there, and kind of a cleanness to the process that I like.

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

I'm just gonna do a podcast because it's mine, I can control it, I have complete responsibility over it, and no one can touch it.

My dream was to not work for anyone. There's only so many things I was good at - and how am I not going to work for anyone? I just don't want people telling me what to do.

The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.

The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day.

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

If you have the opportunity as an actor to control your career in any way, then you've won the jackpot.

Success is the freedom to do what you want, with whom you want, when you want, wherever you want.

I think with animation there's a certain freedom that you're given. You don't have a thought at the back of your mind, that worry that you'll have to cut and go back to the top of the scene. You're not working with anyone else from the cast. It's just you.

I don't like anything that's too confining. I'm sort of a control freak, so anything that makes me feel like I'm out of control is a bit uncomfortable. But you know how it is, sometimes it's good to live a little!

Doing the podcast, the whole reason to do it is just because I can do whatever I want.

I've lived the American dream.

To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I've been living my own version of success since the early '90s when I first got signed. I haven't had a job since then.

Place means nothing to me. I can be at home anywhere.

That is the true joy of being a solo artist. I can do whatever I want. I can go wherever I want. I can show up with my guitar and my song, and it can sound a hundred different ways. That's the freedom of being on your own. The flipside is: That's you on the cover. If it sucks, it's your fault.

You never know how things are going to go. I think you hope that people are going to dig what you do and that you're going to get the chance to do it on a really comfortable level.

The thing about TV is it's a meritocracy. I love that aspect of it - and I've had shows that have gone on the air and been canceled. I've seen the good and the bad of it.