Quotes About Independence

I was looking to become more proactive with my career because I wasn't crazy with some of the scripts I was getting - this was before Blow and Hannibal - so I decided to start my own production company.

I started out as an actor but now I act to fund my own productions. I've managed to separate my mindset.

I will direct films be it my own productions or outside. It's not like I am here only to direct Salman.

I am much more productive late at night because I have no one to look to for entertainment aside from myself.

I don't know about actually doing real productive work on my own car.

What farmers gain most of all from the increase in agricultural productivity, of course, is choice.

We commissioned an independent statutory economic body - the Productivity Commission - to review the possibility of funding a disability scheme. The commission returned with a view that it could. Then it becomes an issue of national will.

I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.

This is a profession for me, but I started off as a self-publisher working on my own schedule and my own stuff before moving on to graphic novels with First Second Books, where there was definitely a schedule, but it was very different from monthly comics.

I am a gypsy, in a way. It's a condition of my profession.

It's the people who are more insecure who feel the need to control and micromanage. But that's true of any profession and hierarchy with a boss. You have people who know you are competent enough to do your job, and then you have the ones that just hover around.

I decided early that I would be a writer when I grew up. That, I thought, was the profession that went with the kind of woman I wanted to become: one who is free to do whatever she chooses.

I've never concerned myself with what anyone thought about my activity, be they people within my profession or people outside of it, and I definitely wouldn't concern myself with anything coming from a racist bigot like a Klan member.

You never meet other screenwriters because it's such a lonely profession.

Obviously, there are advantages when your parents and you share the same profession. I can always go to them for advice but my struggle and hard work will always be mine.

I work on music with different people, and I work on music on my own. That's my life.

In my 20s and 30s, I vociferously wanted to be single. I rarely got into long-term relationships and enjoyed going out with different people.

I've done my work and I'm happy with it... I respect my father very much, but I'm a very different person than he was.

I think I probably got a lot of my father's natural security or ego or whatever. I can be my own person and not have to live under his shadow. I definitely look up to him in many ways - I'd like to be more like him when it comes to business - but I think I'm such a different person, it's hard to even compare us.

People say that when you become famous you're growth is kind of stunted. That kind of makes sense because you are around people who are just agreeing with you and leading you into different places and you don't really make many choices for yourself.

It's good for me to be involved in different things.

There were personality clashes in Free, really. I think it's as simple as that; I think we felt we weren't leaving each other enough room to develop in our own way, and we were restricting each other. So we said, let's go different ways.

I do feel like a loner but I think it's because I look at things differently than other people.