Peter Davison Quotes

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

You have to have a certain amount of limitations, I think, to make art and to make something that can be alive on film. Money can get in the way of that.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.

I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.

I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need the other half of the freedom, and that's freedom from - somebody saying, 'This is great. This is how I want you to do it.'

I don't want to have the bounds put on me in terms of mediums.

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

I love this freedom that has been given to me as an artist to express myself.

I've seen situations where I think comics are really unrealistic about what creative expression and what the artistic freedom, what that entails.

Rules limit you, and once you start thinking about what the audience wants or expects, it becomes a trap that a lot of artists fall into.

You spend most of your time as a director trying to move forward with the movie. It happens on a daily basis, if not more than once a day, that you are struggling with budgetary constraints. Whereas when you're writing, the limitation that you have is your imagination. So it's decidedly non-pragmatic.

I think that limitations are the most important part of any art form

There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

I've been lucky to have things come to me that creatively fulfill me, and those are usually the independent films just because you have a little bit more freedom.

I want to be able to create characters for as long as I can and I want to tell stories for as long as I can but unfortunately I'm not given those opportunities because I'm often boxed into the former category...

I think it's possible to be free in a big production. It's the eye of the director and the actor and the story.

As a poet I would say everything should be able to come into a poem but I can't put toothbrushes in a poem. I really can't.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

When I begin, theoretically and practically I can smear anything I want on the canvas. Then there's a condition I have to react to, by changing it or destroying it.

The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.

I don't want to be held down by genres so much.

I make the kind of music I like.