Madeleine Stowe Quotes

Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.

It's a hard line to walk, man. Cause you know you want to make this movie, you want to make it dark and real, you want to show all this stuff but unfortunately you can't always do that.

The studio is spending great amounts of money, and they want some insurance they will get money back. They go for the middle of the road, broad in appeal. It's restrictive. It's a constant struggle, but if you give in, you're just making cottage cheese, and that's the end of it.

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

I've been lucky enough to work with some great directors, and I don't want to throw that away by doing one big horrible big budget film.

We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

There's an eternal war between a creative person and the business person.

Solo, you don't have compromise. It gets back to what's great when you're a musician.

In the very early days of Wham! the attention felt great, but I do wonder how much freedom I gave away by trying to become something I wasn't.

I suppose we'll make money off our album and our singles and stuff, but, like, they were made as we wanted them, exactly with what we had to say, and done exactly how we wanted them, right? And, like, we didn't put them out to make money. We put them out because we wanted to do them, do you know what I mean?

I just want to make TV that I want to see.

The writing of 'The Ladykillers' was fun. But once it goes out of your hands it's not fun, 'especially for someone who is used to being hands-on like me.

I'm a writer of fiction. I try to write about my time, but it's dangerous if I'm seen as an investigative writer. I manipulate and change and control.

I just write what I write, produce the music I produce and try to give myself a chance to stay true to the art form. If you try to rein in an art form, it can be hurtful to what you are making.

I felt my design point of view was more welcomed in New York, that I could show my collections in the way I wanted to show them.

So, as I step out and take these first steps on this journey to do my own thing, I didn't want to have to get anybody's approval on anything. I didn't want to have to ask a record label 'Is this okay for the album cover? What time do you think I should go on tour this year?'

When I write a movie, I write it for me.

I've told people before that I don't want to be a part of a genre; I want to be my own genre. I want to create it.

I am extremely malleable as an actor, but I also know how to get away with doing things the way I want, even if the director disagrees.

I was fortunate to write pretty much a year out of film school and start making movies in the Hollywood studio system. But with each progressive film it became more frustrating not being able to speak and say things I wanted to say.

I really believe in not compromising your art. I feel like I've never compromised my art.

I eventually want to write and direct and produce my own stuff.

When I was working for WWE I felt like I was trying to make someone else's vision happen instead of my own. And I think that's where I became less true to myself and I think it showed in my work.

We have to make some movies we have passion for, respect for.

Some musicians feel they have to provide what their audiences expect. They lose the distinction between an artist and an entertainer. I am not an entertainer.