Rosemarie DeWitt Quotes

Nobody owns me or my music.

Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment.

Thank God for TNA: we've had the creative freedom to do what we want to do.

I think with animation there's a certain freedom that you're given. You don't have a thought at the back of your mind, that worry that you'll have to cut and go back to the top of the scene. You're not working with anyone else from the cast. It's just you.

There's a lot of creative freedom. Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.

That is the true joy of being a solo artist. I can do whatever I want. I can go wherever I want. I can show up with my guitar and my song, and it can sound a hundred different ways. That's the freedom of being on your own. The flipside is: That's you on the cover. If it sucks, it's your fault.

The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative freedom. You're a pawn in somebody else's chess game, whereas as a writer and as a director, you get to call the shots. And that's very thrilling.

One of the beautiful things about podcasting is that I'm not beholding to some public entity.

I don't much like being directed. I enjoy being allowed to play.

One of the things that I love about voiceover is that it's a situation where - because you're not encumbered by being seen - it's liberating. You're able to make broad choices that you would never make if you were on camera.

I've never been told to do anything. I've never been hurried along by anybody - the kind of so-called 'pressure' of record labels doesn't really exist in my case.

The reason I wanted to do a webcomic was that I could be my own boss, and I could call the shots myself.

Anyone can put anything out at any point and make anything by themselves.

I really like doing stand-up, because it gives you an immense amount of freedom. You haven't got anyone telling you what to do. It's great to have that much power over what you do. You don't have that in television.

It was more freedom than I think most people get when they're starting out - or even when they're not starting out. He [John Cassavetes] did his thing and I did whatever I thought.

See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.

It's nice to really have the freedom to write what I want.

You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have creative freedom because you don't so much focus on what has to move the story along, and only on how your character is reacting to situations.

Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.

The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.

Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don't need to get anybody's approval or validation.

I want to be able to go wherever I want to go, do whatever I want to do. I guard the material and the filmmaker.

I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.

I am the freest author in the world.

With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others.