Kim Shattuck Quotes

I've been wanting to produce for some time because I want to have more creative control over the things that I do and not be victim to the whims of other people's desires.

I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.

I enjoy being in control, having a lot of creative control.

I think every actor wants a certain amount of control. Maybe not control, as such, but just to be part of the process. But it's not necessary, I guess.

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

I didn't want to just be an artist and let someone else have all that control over me. I knew I would have to produce.

I've avoided situations where I wouldn't have creative freedom.

When I get to make a movie, I really try to make it on my own terms.

We got full artistic integrity and autonomy over what we were doing, and that was the main important thing that kept our band alive.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.

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

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.

Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.

I want to be able to go wherever I want to go, do whatever I want to do. I guard the material and the filmmaker.

I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.

If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.

I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.

I don't control anything I create.

I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that I have over what I'm doing is better for me as a solo artist.

There's a lot of creative freedom. Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.

One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.

I like directing myself; I feel like it's one less person to give notes to. There's an efficiency in it. I'm also kind of a control freak. So I like the fact that it gives me more control in the overall picture.

I need to find a way of retaining creative control.