St. Lucia Quotes

I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that I have over what I'm doing is better for me as a solo artist.

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've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.

I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.

There were no previews; we made the film we wanted to make.

I no longer enjoy drawing people's pets. I just want to draw what I want to draw and have people not tell me what to draw.

Sometimes I don't want to be in the confines of what a band seems to provide.

I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.

You gotta make the movie you want to make.

I kinda went back to that period between '88 and '94 where I felt like I was the most creative, without being hindered by powers that be. I was no longer going to try to hinder myself to what I thought was going to be on the radio.

If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.

I don't believe that an animation studio should be an executive-driven studio.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

The way I look at a solo project is, I create what I want with whoever I want.

Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.

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 generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.

I want to make serious work that engages with serious subjects. I'm very lucky: I get to more or less make what I want.

Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.

I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.

When I get to do whatever I want, I'm perfectly happy. I've found that the best scenario is that I just do what I do, and if somebody wants to be part of it, they should work as a conduit for what vision I have. They should help me complete the universe.

I want to write and direct and kind of do my own thing.

It's good fun, making a solo album, because there's perhaps songs that wouldn't get used for the Stones or any other kind of outfit that I'm working with. It's just nice to be the boss.

It's really nice to be able to do what I'm doing without having to compromise with another musician.