Duncan Jones Quotes

Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.

I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

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 can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

You gotta make the movie you want to make.

We've been working with the very best in the business. The studio really just let us alone to make the films.

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.

You make your own path as an actor. Nobody does it for you, so you have to invent yourself.

I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

I have a freedom that's incredibly valuable. Obviously my freedom is far smaller in scale than people like Zemeckis and Spielberg have here. But it's comparable. I can dream up a project, develop it, make it, control it, release it.

I have achieved what I wanted to achieve. I'm better off at some sort of independent place where they not only like what I produce but also trust me to be the one to produce it.

I don't much like being directed. I enjoy being allowed to play.

Success is freedom - scripts coming your way and getting to choose the stories you want to tell.

I'd done a ton of movies here in Hollywood, and I realized that every movie I'd done was somebody's else's work and someone else's vision.

I've gone places where they've told me what I need to do, what I need to say, who I need to be, what moves I need to perform. And at Impact I get to just be me. I have creative control to be me and do what I want.

I've avoided situations where I wouldn't have creative freedom.

Top performers in their fields such as Debbie Moore, Jean-Christophe Novelli, Deborah Meaden and Jo Malone, did not go to university and are just a handful of the individuals who show that with drive and determination, you can succeed by treading your own path.

I want to go my own way - to build my own career. To be known as Emre Can.

I've written all of my songs, I directed all my videos. Every part of what I've done for music, from the visuals to the business, I did it. And I'm really proud of that.

I've always been independent with my music. I've always run my own music label.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

I love everything about entrepreneurship and about owning your career and doing what you love to do.

And yet, I felt a surge of exhilaration just thinking about that night. Not just because I'd met the prince and fallen in love and started on my course toward happiness ever after, but because I'd made something happen. I'd done something everybody had told me I couldn't. I'd changed my life all by myself. Having a fairy godmother would have ruined everything.