Paul F. Tompkins Quotes

It's just so much more exciting to have no limits and to be able to take your character as far as you want or need to get where you want to go.

We love having the freedom that we have with the web; I mean, we don't have to answer to anybody. We have complete creative control; we don't have to worry about FCC regulations.

There are no limits, love, there are no limits.

That joy of a creative environment, without any restrictions, is hard to leave.

It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.

I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.

The Internet offers opportunities that are more unique than ever before. With TV, I know I'm making 22 minutes; I know there's a commercial in the middle. With the Internet, no one knows anything. No rules.

Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows.

I want to be free... free to develop my art.

When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to.

People don't like doing podcasts.

Musically, I have little ambition. The only real ambition I have is to make music and do music whenever I feel like it, without any real ambition or planning.

We have full creative control, we have a giant audience that loves what we do, and we can make whatever we want.

One of the great things about working for Netflix is that they haven't placed any restrictions on content or artistically.

What I love about podcasting is it's guerilla radio. I don't have to stick to anybody's protocol or format. I can operate my show just like I want to, but at the end of the day, it's just a can of audio whoopa**. My show is built to entertain.

The beautiful thing about podcasting is it's just talking. It can be funny, or it can be terrifying. It can be sweet. It can be obnoxious. It almost has no definitive form. In that sense it's one of the best ways to explore an idea, and certainly much less limiting than trying to express the same idea in stand up comedy. For some ideas stand up is best, but it's really, really nice to have podcasts as well.

One of the reasons I really love low budget filmmaking is you don't have to think about that as much. You can have more fun and be more playful and be freer creatively.

I don't set boundaries for myself when I am writing; if I did, I would be paralyzed from the start, unable to write a word on the page.

We have the power to make reality. Why make it inside boundaries, when the boundless is so near?

I would design for anybody who gives me a free hand and who doesn't sit on my head.

I think the designs and creativity are limitless with 3-D-printed clothing.

We want people to watch and consume what we do, but we are not trying to sell anything. So that does give us a freedom in a way.

I started writing 'Normal People' not knowing that anyone would read it, not knowing that anyone would read the first book, so I didn't really have any hang ups about, 'Oh, I can't do this again. I've done this already.' It was just a project I was working on for my own amusement.

I've got my own TV stuff on the go, and it's all a bit oddball - it's one-offs, and I can do what, when, and how I want it, really. I don't have any scripts or people telling me to do stuff twice.

Some artists say 'Don't categorize me.' I'm saying 'You can't categorize me.'