Quotes About Autonomy

It's only advice. Ignore it if you want.

I don't think about what other people want from me.

I need NOW's defense like a fish needs a bicycle. I don't want them to defend me.

I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'

Men like to squash you. I just want someone who's happy with himself, happy with his life. He doesn't have to squash mine.

People can think what they want to think, I don't go after people. I think most people I talk to, like me, are very quiet and keep to themselves, they maintain their lives.

I have known for some time that I can meet any man I want but that does not mean that I want to meet anyone. I certainly don't like being forced into situations.

I'm such an independent person, I always want to do everything myself.

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

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.

I don't have any kind of ideology that precludes me from moving in one direction or another. I just want creative autonomy and I want at least an opportunity that it's going to be seen.

No is a complete sentence and so often we forget that. When we don't want to do something we can simply smile and say no. We don't have to explain ourselves, we can just say 'No.'

It's up to me to create the life I want.

When I'm 75 years old, I want to say that I chased my dream. I didn't let other people's opinions dictate what I have in my book of my life.

People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.

Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.

I think sometimes older people wind up being a little childlike. They've done their time, now they get to do what they want.

I don't want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.

I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened... I didn't want to be violated in that way.'

I still live my life the way that I want to live it, and people are very respectful of my space, but they also want to chat, and I quite like chatting.

I can do anything I want, basically, as long as it doesn't involve athletic ability, or something like that.

I practice the artist's golden rule. I wouldn't want somebody telling me how to finish my painting, I'm not going to tell him how to finish his movie or how to shape his movie.

You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.

I'm not going to let fear rule my life. I'd rather be able to know that I've made a choice that's right for me, than saying yes because I don't want my agents to be upset with me.