Anurag Kashyap Quotes

When I went into film, it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be able to do whatever I wanted to do. Maybe that was a good thing in the beginning. I had blinders on, and I charged forward.

I started writing 'Normal People' not knowing that anyone would read it, not knowing that anyone would read the first book, so I didn't really have any hang ups about, 'Oh, I can't do this again. I've done this already.' It was just a project I was working on for my own amusement.

Oneohtrix Point Never is total freedom to do what I think is right.

We love having the freedom that we have with the web; I mean, we don't have to answer to anybody. We have complete creative control; we don't have to worry about FCC regulations.

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.

Doing the podcast, the whole reason to do it is just because I can do whatever I want.

I think we've established a convention on the show that allows us to do pretty much anything we want to.

Being in a space that's not a studio, it kind of creates an openness of 'We can do whatever we want here; we're not on the clock.'

When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to.

It's been exciting to be able to go forward with stuff without 10,000 people saying, It should be like this.

Panic! at the Disco, for me, has been an outlet to do whatever. I never felt like there were any rules. It was always carte blanche. I could do whatever I wanted. There were no rules set yet for the band. It just felt right.

My imagination can do whatever it wants to do. This gives me a great sense of freedom.

I have the space and liberty to create.

I've got a comfortable home for my music where I can put out whatever the hell I want, and I feel like the slate is really clean, and I can get away with anything. It's a nice, free feeling.

We wanted to write songs that we really like that incorporate everything. It seems a lot of bands want to stick with one thing. We didn't want to be scared to do anything that we wanted to do. We didn't want anything to hold us back. We wanted no boundaries.

I have taken every amount of creative liberty and freedom that I can get and I've actually managed to push it. I would say being the champion gives me that freedom because you really get a little more carte blanche.

That joy of a creative environment, without any restrictions, is hard to leave.

I love to come to L.A. because it's one of the most inspiring places because there are no rules.

One reason I think I am able to work with such dark material is the fact I was never really discouraged from making this kind of work.

From a creative perspective, we've been very fortunate in that doing it the 'VGHS' way gave us unlimited freedom. Whatever we wanted to do, however we wanted to do it, we had that.

I want to be as creative as I want. I don't ever want to have to compromise; I don't ever want anybody ever to tell me what to do, I don't ever want to argue with somebody because of my vision.

I had a lot more creative freedom back in the day.

Fox has always allowed us to be ourselves. They've never told us what we can say, what to say, what not to say.

The beautiful thing about being independent and having my own label is I can say whatever the hell I want.

Personally, I had no confines: there were no bounds, no boundaries that I felt when I got in the ring.