Susan Sarandon Quotes

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

The chance to work on Broadway choreography as opposed to having to deliver Broadway choreography can be two distinct things.

If I am expected to play a dancer, I will learn dancing but won't do the random, meaningless dancing.

Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane.

Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control almost like God creating something.

I don't like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, "I'm only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world." I don't like to say that to people either. But, I do think there's a loss of romance.

As a writer you're holding a dog. You let the dog run about. But you finally can pull him back. Finally, I'm in control. But the great excitement is to see what happens if you let the whole thing go. And the dog or the character really runs about, bites everyone in sight, jumps up trees, falls into lakes, gets wet, and you let that happen. That's the excitement of writing plays-to allow the thing to be free but still hold the final leash.

With a brush you have control. The paint goes on the brush and you make the mark. From experience you know exactly what will happen. With the squeegee you lose control.

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. So the director's task is just that – to direct, to point the way. Then the actor takes over. And he must be allowed the space, the freedom to express himself in the role. Without that space, an actor is no more than an unthinking robot with a chest-full of push-buttons.

Every actor has to find space where they are free, in order to do good work.

I always like the studio best, once I got the hang of it and the control. I like it because it's complete control

I insist that they do what they became actors to do. I want them to create something and not just hit marks and say words. So they all love that because they're playing. It's called playacting. Their contributions are not only welcomed, but are accepted and used.

As an actor you don't control the end result. Because you're a director, you get to control the end result. I think for us, we really have to show up and participate and give. And then let go.

I loved working when I worked at commercial art and they told you what to do and how to do it and all you had to do was correct it and they'd say yes or no. The hard thing is when you have to dream up the tasteless things to do on your own.

In my experience, directors who are the most comfortable with themselves and confident in their work give you and everybody on the crew the freedom and the space to create. It's the people who are more insecure who feel the need to control and micromanage.

...an actor is exactly as big as his imagination.

I wanted to work on a cable show and with a writer/director because that's a much more fulfilling and freeing experience, as an actor.

When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

You know, I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date.

Having total freedom to direct my own movies is more difficult than those I was hired for, where the framework has been already furnished. Unlike with my own work, I don't have to deny or feel embarrassed at the straightforwardness or orthodoxy of the directorial style, because I can say in excuse, "This is how I was asked to direct by those people."

An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.

I don't hesitate to do nudity as an actor if it's done well.

I think from a major-label perspective, if you were on the flip side of things and that's the world you were used to working in, your interpretation could be, "Oh, they're having trouble writing songs," when really it's like, "No, I'm not ready to write songs, I don't want to write a song right now, if I did write a song, it would be forced."

I don't really have any limitations for what I want to do, as an actor.

So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.