Ronald D. Moore Quotes

I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.

A really important point for me is that I don't use any brand or corporate sponsors. So I have no responsibility to anyone but myself and the subjects.

You'll go mad trying to figure out what people want. I don't bother. I write the stories I want to read.

If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.

I definitely want to continue working in independent films - and big budget stuff as well - but there's a freedom you have when you're not getting paid. It's easier to say no and there's no pressure to please the powers that be. Also I don't have to hear 'flirt and smile more.'

All artists are now free to express their own personality.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

When you are in control of what the final product is, there is kind of no limitation to what you feel like you can do because you know that if you don't like it, you can just cut it out.

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way.

I'm part of the fashion system, but I don't want to follow all the rules. I don't want to be contrarian - I just want to do my own things, which are most honest and correct to do.

I am anti-ideological. Ideology destroys your freedom. It binds you to the herd.

I certainly relish the chance to play a woman who didn't have to conform in any way ever to expected behavior or desirable behavior or attractive behavior.

I don't care about commercial success. I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want.

Sometimes I believe that the reason I have been able to do such exemplary work on the screen is because this is the only place I can be free, neither censured nor judged.

I never realized how much I cherished having creative freedom.

Nobody has to give me permission to write.

There's nobody telling Oprah what to do. There's no one telling David Letterman what he can and can't do. You've got to have 100 percent support from everybody who's behind the show, across the board.

Prince was one of the best people I've met. He didn't care about the big system. I was always like, at any time, Prince could write a No. 1 song because he's that talented, but he chooses to do what he wants. I respect that. He actually helped me through a lot of situations with his knowledge.

My imagination can do whatever it wants to do. This gives me a great sense of freedom.

One reason I think I am able to work with such dark material is the fact I was never really discouraged from making this kind of work.