Sophie Dahl Quotes

My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat.

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will.

The stuff I'm passionate about is what I write; it isn't multi-million-dollar franchise movies.

I love to work. It's the idea of having someone else tell you how to make your film or how to sell it - that's the part I can't really deal with. I would rather do 1,000 things that are work than deal with one thing that's a political problem.

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.

Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don't need to get anybody's approval or validation.

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

I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case.

Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.

If I only acted, I feel like I wouldn't have enough creative expression over my own sensibility, and also if I only acted, the notion of surrendering my fate and future to other people is deeply unsettling to me and it would make me uncomfortable.

I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.

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.

I think the reason I wrote screenplays for nearly a decade was because it was my territory. I could stake that out.

I used to get in trouble with my old agent, because I've never been driven by fear or need or greed. I want my work to represent me as a person, so I can be quite fussy.

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

The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job.

Writing a novel was completely awesome because parts of it could suck and I could throw them away. I didn't have to know the ending until I got there.

I'm just going to go out there, and if people want to put me on the front of their magazine or whatever, that's fine. If they don't, that's fine as well. I'm just going to go out there and make my music.

At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it for the rest of my time. Regardless of whether one might like it or one might not like it, this is where I am.

I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do.

I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody.

Being a filmmaker in the digital platform has given me complete creative control. I can make what I want, when I want. I don't have to wait to book an audition.

I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible.

Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career.