Hannibal Buress Quotes

I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

I've always wanted to keep my own personal creative space, and do everything myself.

At some point, I would like to start creating my own things. If people don't write the scripts I like, then I will do my own.

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.

I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else.

I have a freedom that's incredibly valuable. Obviously my freedom is far smaller in scale than people like Zemeckis and Spielberg have here. But it's comparable. I can dream up a project, develop it, make it, control it, release it.

I sometimes listen to music I made and find it to be something I wouldn't want to buy from a store, if there was a store. When it's like that, you have to make what you want to hear.

I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

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.

When you're making a film all by yourself, that requires you to have quite a bit of a point of view in order for anything to get done.

I won't read scripts because I have a limited amount of time. Why should I help other people do lame stuff when I can just go out and put on lame stuff of my own?

I'd be absolutely happy to go back and make a smaller picture. I never want my choices to be dictated by budget. That's one of the reasons why I take so much pride in being able to make films for $2 and a paper clip - because I can always get my hands on $2 and a paper clip. I never have to ask for permission for that.

When I was 28, I made this film called 'Drinking Buddies' that I starred in and produced, and we improvised the entire thing, and it was a complete exercise in freedom of expression in making something for only the purpose of making it, not for recognition or money or anything else, and it's still my favorite thing I've ever done.

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.

There's no point in me meeting with a bunch of producers or studios, because I'll write my own scripts in my own time.

The only reason I write is that I feel I have to. Being the creator of a project puts me in a much better position to do the things I want to do.

I definitely prefer to write under my own volition and see what happens.

I don't wait on the music industry to qualify me or give me my paycheck. I go about my business as an artist and I believe that my value is in my product and in my art form, and that's why I can't be stopped, because I began producing my record by myself, without a record company.

I think it's the same thing for a country. We are lucky then that we can get some financing from the government, because it means when I get the money, when I get the grant to do the film, of course it's based on the script, but I have total artistic control and I can do personal stuff.

Any time you turn off and let someone else make any artistic decision for you, you make a mistake.

My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.

I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or whatever. Actors have to be producers and writers have to be producers.

With a film you go with the script that's already written. And I've never thought of a project, a film that would come from my own desire. I don't think I can do it. I need someone else's desire to be able to do something. With a record, it is completely different, it's a collaboration with another artist, but I'm willing to go into intimate places with no masks on.

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