Bill Sienkiewicz Quotes

Anyone can put anything out at any point and make anything by themselves.

I have real TV studios. If I have an idea, I can go shoot it. I can experiment. If I choose to air it or not, it's at my discretion. I don't have to do it to somebody else's time frame.

We've always decided ourselves what we wanted to put out as our singles and that sort of things.

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 don't believe that an animation studio should be an executive-driven studio.

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.

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

George was getting alot of independence for himself in those days. He was writing more, and wanted things to go his way - where, when we first started things basically went John and Paul's way. You know, 'cuz they were the writers.

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will.

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

I need to find a way of retaining creative control.

When you are in control of what the final product is, there is kind of no limitation to what you feel like you can do because you know that if you don't like it, you can just cut it out.

I couldn't imagine doing a show where I'd once again have to answer to corporate interests.

I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen.

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

There's so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make.

Money don't rule me, record companies don't rule me.

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

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've gone places where they've told me what I need to do, what I need to say, who I need to be, what moves I need to perform. And at Impact I get to just be me. I have creative control to be me and do what I want.

I love having the control over the end result and not having to go through some committee to get something approved. I feel sorry for people, like actors, because unless you're Woody Allen or Mel Gibson, they don't have much say in the decisions that affect their work.

With everything I do, I'm 100 percent involved. I don't really let anyone just take over and hear what's going to go on. I like to have full creative control, pretty much, and really be involved with everything.

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

Within the Universal deal, we've always felt like an independent act. We've never been told what to do. We've used their resources to our own design.

There were a couple of times where I shot things, or started off in one mode and thought, "Well, I really didn't want to do that." I would just change my mind. And frankly, I don't think anybody really cared. I didn't have some producer that had given me $10 million, demanding results. I could just kind of do whatever I thought was right, and move in that way.