Seth Godin Quotes

I can only control what I can, which is what I'm able to do as an artist.

I just do what I want to do, and if it's a rather interesting script - which I found.

There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.

If I only acted, I feel like I wouldn't have enough creative expression over my own sensibility, and also if I only acted, the notion of surrendering my fate and future to other people is deeply unsettling to me and it would make me uncomfortable.

I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.

I only make movies that are interesting to me.

The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

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

God helps those who help themselves.

The gods help them that help themselves.

You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.

At the end of the day, I'm an artist. I may make work and decide to do something political, but it will come out of an artist's position. It won't come out of society telling me I have to. If I do, it's because I choose, as an artist, to do it.

Ultimately the person, even the child, must choose for himself.

I just make the movies I want to see. I've always been that way.

I've always felt like I've had the ability to choose which roles I was going to play. I don't think that the industry agreed with me, but I've always had a bit of a headstrong attitude of only doing the things that I really believe in and want to explore.

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

I love having the control over the end result and not having to go through some committee to get something approved. I feel sorry for people, like actors, because unless you're Woody Allen or Mel Gibson, they don't have much say in the decisions that affect their work.

You constantly have to take inventory, not get on someone else's agenda. You want to write something that's poignant and moves people.

The only reason I write is that I feel I have to. Being the creator of a project puts me in a much better position to do the things I want to do.

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 really do think that is why this country is so great: If you want to accomplish something, then you must do it.

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.

I finally feel like I have enough of the tools to be able to really set the tone for myself with the kind of work I wanna do and the kind of process I wanna have.