Oneohtrix Point Never Quotes

I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to see.

All any artist can do is please themselves.

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.

I want to work on interesting parts that I can believe in.

People ask whether I put the politics first, journalism first or the comedy first; it doesn't really matter. I'm just playing with the cards that I have been dealt because I really love doing what I do.

I have to have a creative role; otherwise, I simply wouldn't come into work.

I, in the end, make art for myself.

When I walk onto a set, no matter what it is, I always do the very best work that I can. But I'm not braindead, and I want to do things that I want to do, you know?

I don't want money to ever drive my career. I want my career to be driven by what I want to do in art.

When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about.

I don't write for a particular audience. I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.

The second you feel a political imperative, it destroys your art.

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 simply don't want to enter the rat race. I like doing movies because I like acting and not because I want to reach the top.

There will always be some films that the audience would like and some that they don't. But if I start becoming a slave to appreciation, I will be subjecting myself and my talent to one particular type of taste. I don't want to do that.

You can't have artistic freedom if you have to think about seven different aspects of your own job all the time. It must be very, very exhausting.

I want to create music that moves me, not just music that is going to get me famous or make someone at a label happy.

I should be satisfied first as an actor with my work. I will not do something because everyone is doing it.

If you enjoy and become a fan of Tony Rock, I really appreciate it! But, I do my comedy for me, so I don't try and please everyone or appease anyone. In the end, it's for me.

What I've learned and all of us have learned is: You can't force art, and there's no way you could force somebody to do something that they didn't want to do in this line of work.

Rules limit you, and once you start thinking about what the audience wants or expects, it becomes a trap that a lot of artists fall into.

When I did TV shows and my other movies, I never try to do it for anybody. I just do what I think is good no matter what the genre is.