Quotes About Autonomy

Joblessness releases you from the world system

Employment leaves you bare and empty

You can be a small element in a corporate system serving your boss all your life and you will retire unsatisfied with your way of living

Cohesion is the bane of effective independence.

Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

The best boss is the one who bosses the least.

Stop looking for permission from other people to do what you know you are meant to do.

I prefer to rule and work in Nigeria in a free and independent way. I was born free, and I want to die free in the name of my country.

Don't wait for people to dress your bed for you, do it yourself and you'll be glad to sleep and feel relaxed.

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources.

You truly help others working on yourself. Remember that the only power you have is over your own choices. You simply have no power to choose for others unless they allow you to.

I do what I want to do instead of what other people think I should do, and I'm kind of stubborn that way.

My mom never let me dye my hair, and I would beg her every single day. When I was 16, I told her I wanted to dye it purple, and she let me - probably because she never thought I'd actually do it. Then I just stuck with it.

But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I think there's every reason to believe things can settle out in a situation that is recognizably better than the one we're stuck in today.

I could never understand the herd mentality. I have always fought to do things my way and have stuck to that.

When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.

I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do.

Sony is the coolest studio. They are really amazing. I think part of it comes from they're not an American corporation. They don't work by quite the same rules. And their studio heads have a lot of autonomy.

All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it.

That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.

We've been working with the very best in the business. The studio really just let us alone to make the films.

My movies are not messed with by the studios.

In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you.

When we do a movie with the studios, they wouldn't be asking us to do it, I don't think, if it was a movie they wanted to get into themselves. What you see is what you get with us, so they let us do what we want to do.