Paddy Considine Quotes

It's great to get to make something in your own voice.

I don't necessarily love all the collaborations that I've done; the more I work with other people, the more I realize that I want to work with myself.

It's strange: I've done so many things up until I did 'Obvious Child,' including writing children's books and making 'Marcel the Shell.' To me, the through-line is incredibly clear: it all comes from wanting to be connected to my own inner voice and not wanting to be on somebody else's agenda if that means that I can't be myself.

My art and my creativities were totally something that was of my own heart and mind. I could never let anybody dictate to me what I should write and how I would write it.

When I was 28, I made this film called 'Drinking Buddies' that I starred in and produced, and we improvised the entire thing, and it was a complete exercise in freedom of expression in making something for only the purpose of making it, not for recognition or money or anything else, and it's still my favorite thing I've ever done.

I want to be my own artist and reflect my creativity.. I don't want to be turned into a pop princess; that's not who I am.

I've always wanted to keep my own personal creative space, and do everything myself.

I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

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'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.

The freedom of every artist is essential.

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'

I think as long as you're being creative and finding your own work interesting, that's all that matters.

I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I didn't want to be an interpretative kind of artist. I had an intuition about wanting to create my own form, in one way or another, whatever that would be.

I never wanted to be a feature - that was never the goal with my music. I didn't want to just live through other people's work.

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.

I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.

I don't want people to just hand me music and be like, 'Here, you sound good on this. Sing it.' I want to be able to say, 'This is me.'

I don't want people to define me. That's the best way for an actor to grow.

I can only do music if I can do it the way I can do it.