Wes Craven Quotes

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

I am responsible for no one but myself.

That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.

I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.

You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want to make sure you're responsible for it.

A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

The one with the primary responsibility to the individual's future is that individual.

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.

We want to control our own destiny and take responsibility for our own outcomes.

But at the end of the day, I'm my own man, regardless of what my little brother does or what he did.

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

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

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible.

The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.

Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don't need to get anybody's approval or validation.

The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is 'mine,' and it is not a general one, but is - 'unique,' as I am unique. Nothing is more to me than myself!

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

I never concerned myself with other people's decisions.