Chris Lilley Quotes

I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.

I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc.

One of the advantages of not going to art school is that you're not taught what you can't do.

So when I went to Arista, I had a period of writing where I suddenly was unrestricted. I wasn't writing for a band for the first time. It opened up a whole other arena for me to work within.

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'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.

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

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice.

The great liberation of imaginative writing is that you're not held back by the facts.

As far as I'm concerned, freedom is the most important thing to creativity. You should feel free to write in whatever way, whatever language, feels comfortable to you.

The wonderful thing about writing fiction is that no one is stopping you. There's no one saying, 'You can't do that.'

There's something to be said for being given a tremendous amount of freedom as an actor.

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

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.

My ethos is musical freedom: to create whatever I want.

To be able to create an album where you are in complete control of your own work is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for an artist.

That's what I feel like my music represents - having no limits or restrictions.

So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.

If you get the you-are-a-genius label, it can limit you. Because I'm not so scrutinized, I have more freedom. And that let's me write what I want.

Make the videos that you want to watch. Don't think about who is going to be upset or offended.

Working with David Lynch, rules go out the door.

It's my only freedom, music, and I'm not going to give it up to anyone else.

I get to do all the styles of music that I love. There's no boundaries; there's nobody holding on to me saying I can't do that.

The real artists are ultimately people who don't consider their audience and are almost incapable of considering their audience. They can do what they do and fire themselves up.