Quotes About Autonomy

Nobody should force you to do a bad piece of work in your whole life - no client, no creative director, nobody. The job isn't to please the client; the job is to produce something for the client that makes them incredibly successful.

All the albums that I grew up listening to were produced by one person.

I'm not interested in being the producer of somebody else's song.

Part of the fun of working on 'Beverly Hills, 90210,' for me, was that I got a lot of freedom from our executive producer, Chuck Rosen, to add things, change things. I got a lot of freedom to be creative.

The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer.

When you're a stand-up comic, you live and die by what you say on stage. There's no director or writer or producer who can tell you what to say and not to say. Once in a while, a club owner will ask a comic to work clean, or not say something, but that's few and far between.

I didn't want to have people open doors for me. My dad never made a call on my behalf to anyone - not to a producer, a director, or a casting agent.

For making music for myself, I just need to be happy. I'm the producer, the director, and the listener.

On my 'Mickey' video, I was the director, producer, choreographer, editor, singer - everything.

The only place where any artist feels liberated is doing independent music. I have had great experience making music for The Dewarists and Coke Studio. No actor, producer or label is telling me what to do with my music. I'm the boss. It is my life, my expression.

I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.

In general, I don't feel artists should need producers.

Once I accumulated a bunch of sounds and learned how to use Logic, I was like, 'Wait a second, I don't need to work with any producers. I can do this on my own.'

We were very creative. There was nothing contrived about us. No one telling us what to do, what to wear, what to sing. We wrote our own material, chose our producers.

A composer like me finds it impossible to work with today's producers. They want to tell you exactly how to compose, which notes to play, which rhythms to put in which part of the song.

I can't be bullied by producers.

Nobody really produces my albums.

I'm so not interested in producing, other than doing my own work, producing my own films. I only do it as favors, for other people to get their films made.

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.

When I'm making a film, I don't want my producer to be on the sets. So when I'm producing a film, I don't want to be on the sets!

I am a perfectionist and the only reason why I started producing is because I didn't want to argue with a producer.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

I think it's important to be in control of my own destiny; to a lot of people I'm just a product, so I feel it's up to me to take a keen interest in what's going on around me. After all, it's my life.

I don't believe what I do outside my profession is anybody's' business. And that includes a personal thing like pregnancy or even marriage.