Bonnie McKee Quotes

I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.

When I work on my own stuff - and I think this is true for anybody - but when you work on something that you just completely own, you are trying to stay as true to your own storytelling voice as you can.

I've found through experience that I'm only good when I'm writing something that, in essence, only I could write. The times I've written for hire, for other people, I don't think I've done very well.

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.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

The way I look at a solo project is, I create what I want with whoever I want.

I just write what I want 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.'

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 write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

Virginia Woolf was wrong. You do not need a room of your own to write.

Writing for myself and writing for another artist are two very different experiences. When I handle both the story and the art, I have full control. I can endlessly tweak every word and every line.

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

To direct a sequel to somebody else's work is not interesting to me.

There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.

When I write a movie, I write it for me.

When I get to make a movie, I really try to make it on my own terms.

I've never said anything that I didn't want to say on a record, ever.

When you make music on your own for so long, you get used to just doing whatever you want.

I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.

You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.

As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his personality in literature the aim of his life, has no right to suppress himself any carefully considered work which seemed good enough when it was written. Suppression, if it is deserved, will come rapidly enough from the same causes that suppress the unworthy members of a man's family.

Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.

You write things that are of interest to you. There's no focus group.