Quotes About Independence

I started working at a time when most of my friends were still figuring their lives out.

The time I learned the most in restaurants was when I was alone in a basement, figuring it out on my own.

You can't live in someone else's shoes; you've got to branch out and fill your own shoes.

I'm kind of resistant to being told no, not being wanted. It fills me with energy.

I don't feel that my marriage has anything to do with my career. It never hampers anyone's career in the film industry.

When I started out, at 19, I was told, by the media and the film industry to do a certain kind of films and work with certain kind of stars. Coming from a non-filmi background, I did not know how to go about it, as there were different people trying to push me in various directions.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

It's nice that I can do what I want with my hair when I'm not filming.

I feel that the smallness of the filmmaking environment is somehow connected to the freedom of creating film.

With filmmaking in general, I have never absorbed the traditional knowledge of film history or filmmaking. It has always been just pick up the camera and go figure it out.

I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.

In the world of independent filmmaking, you're never quite sure what's happening when and where.

Filmmaking was the way I could write characters and not have to give them up to anybody.

It's always better to make a hero than lean on one. My goal is to emulate China in the filmmaking business, not Los Angeles.

I think it's time British filmmakers stopped allowing themselves to be colonized so ruthlessly by U.S. ideas and stopped looking so slavishly to the U.S. market. It demeans filmmaking when they do that.

Sometimes I wonder how my filmmaking would have been affected by film school but in the end I'm glad I got to figure it out on my own.

You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.

The kind of work I do and the films I believe in, I had to take charge of making that kind of cinema.

I get advice, but the final decision about my life is one I always take alone.

I want all the mistakes to be mine, and I want to take responsibility for everything even if I fail. Whatever the project is, I need to have the final say.

I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value.

I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.

Finally having the freedom to speak is a really liberating feeling.

You can take your life into your own hands in terms of directing. There are ways for you to finance yourself and to write and make a film.