Kevin Pollak Quotes

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

I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.

Hollywood wants to own everything. I don't want to own anything. I don't want people just to make content, I want to empower and teach them to create content they own that they can exploit in any medium.

I don't take story input from fans.

Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.

As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain't got to pry beyond that.

One of the amazing things about the Internet is that the content creators are the gatekeepers. We can think of an idea and execute it quickly, and we didn't have to pitch the idea to a major network or convince a studio head to sign-off on the concept.

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it's no longer his... I just see what people make of it.

I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.

Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.

It's impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.

I've made six films for Disney, and they have a clause in their contracts called the morality clause that I've always refused to sign.

You have to be very careful with the art you create and you put out.

We want to be a studio that makes a whole bunch of stuff we believe in, in all ranges of scale and time and length, and own as much as that IP ourselves and generate as much of that IP ourselves as possible.

If I am writing down something and it is my idea, my imagination, it won't be fact.

I am working with writers and producers to have a more proprietary relationship over shows, having more ownership and creative control.

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 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.

I don't want to be the front for somebody else's creativity and sell that day in, day out.

Nothing you see on the Internet is mine unless it comes from one of my albums, books, HBO specials, or appeared on my website.

I believe in copyright, but I don't believe in copyright extremism.

There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite.

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 dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.

The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.