Justin Peck Quotes

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.

I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.

I want to highlight this, that to make meaningful cinema, we really need an enabling environment and freedom to express.

I'm just going to do things that I like to do, sing songs that I like to sing.

I always say I want creative control. A lot of people don't think about that. And that's what every artist should think of - being creative and not just a puppet.

We are so grateful we are given the chance and the freedom to do what we want, what we want to create, what's on our mind, and that's honestly what we asked for in the beginning of our career.

There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists alone. If you are a true artist, you will have a very finely tuned moral mechanism.

My greatest accomplishment is the freedom for doing what I want to do with my music...I love my freedom so I'm happy I am a free artist.

Every actor has to find space where they are free, in order to do good work.

No one told us what to wear, what to write, what to play. When they tried to, we shot 'em down easily.

To be able to create an album where you are in complete control of your own work is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for an artist.

If the story-teller is to nourish the roots of his culture, society must set him free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

When you know you have great support from the studio, that's a great feeling, and when it's the creative support, that's great.

Ultimately, I think what I want from my career is to be able to create work for myself, and there's only so much you can do as an actor in a movie.

The process of writing and creating and answering that very unique call inside yourself has nothing to do with agents and sales and all that stuff.

I want ABC to be a fantastic home for creative, talented people with unique points of view and personal stories to tell and for us to be able to support them in bringing their ideas to the screen.

I'm not here to put my music out on the Internet with no support and then say I got creative freedom. I've got creative freedom wherever I go: I don't create anything that I don't want to create. That's freedom. Since when does a company force you to make something that you don't want to make? If they do that, you leave.

I could have never had any kind of creative freedom on TV, so then I did movies! Now, I am able to do all kinds of entertainment... and that, I feel, is the biggest blessing!

In my first label Shrapnel Records I wasn't expected to do anything except the creative music that I wanted to do. I was my own boss, which is great.

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

As a creative individual, I really go out of my way to avoid the corporate scene in terms of songwriting. If the first question is how much money is it going to make, I'm going to be in trouble anyway.

When I started off as a choreographer, I had to do songs, which I may have wanted to do differently, but directors had their own inputs to give. But now, I take liberty to decide my own dance steps as well.

I feel more relaxed after the Oscar. I feel like I have a chance to just tell the stories I want to tell, and it's actually been really nice.

With Metro Station, there were too many people trying to control us. That's not the thing you should do with an artist, I think.

When you're working in service to a big project, there's always the question of, 'Is there total freedom to do what I think is right artistically, or is this a job?' It's okay for things to be a job. I'm perfectly comfortable working. I don't need to sit around and quench whatever personal artistic thirst I have at all times.