Kathryn Minshew Quotes

It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions.

They say, 'We will give you money, but we want you to play this or that.' And I always thought, 'If I'm going to do that, I might as well go back and be a dishwasher.'

I'm not interested in the mad race. I just like working with good people.

I want to be able to go wherever I want to go, do whatever I want to do. I guard the material and the filmmaker.

Doing something because it's quote-unquote a good career move doesn't really appeal to me.

Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.

I really do like to work. I will work again. But on my terms.

I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule.

I am in the position where I don't have to work for the sake of working, so I'm very lucky, in a sense. So, I can always sit back and wait for a project that I respond to, that I want to do.

I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending on the circumstances. Sometimes I take a job because it's a group of people I'm dying to work with, and sometimes it can be a desire to shake things up a bit and not to take myself too seriously.

I do what I like now. I just don't have time for it all.

Directors tend to kind of let me do what I want to do.

I think a lot of what I loved being a studio executive was the variety and freedom. But now, as a producer, you're much more able to enjoy those two things. What I loved about it doesn't necessarily exist anymore.

I want to be free to be any version of me I feel like being. I don't want to be McDonald's that serves the same food every time.

I think that titles are for, I don't know, books and stuff. I just like doing what I'm doing.

I like following whatever's right for me at any given time. I could have stayed with Free for 40 years, but it becomes a corporate entity after a while, and once I become locked into it and governed by it and am expected to do a certain thing all of the time, I tend to want to move on.

My job description? It is many things; it is a whole universe created around the things that I like.

I can't run my career based on someone else's ideology.

The best organizations are filled with people who have a wealth of choices as to what work they choose to do. We need to give them every reason possible to solve the world's problems.

When we first started we felt something changing in terms of work, and we felt it was a global shift. People were taking control of their future, not just in terms of making money. They wanted to control their own destiny.

For my career, I wouldn't go racing if I didn't enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

I'm 100 percent in control of my artistry, music, and finances.

I always wanted to be in charge of my own career. I like having my own imprint.