Iggy Azalea Quotes

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

I need to find a way of retaining creative control.

I just make the movies I want to see. I've always been that way.

I couldn't be an artist who was told what to do, what to be, what to sing.

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

It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play.

You gotta make the movie you want to make.

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 want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.

If I only acted, I feel like I wouldn't have enough creative expression over my own sensibility, and also if I only acted, the notion of surrendering my fate and future to other people is deeply unsettling to me and it would make me uncomfortable.

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

I used to get in trouble with my old agent, because I've never been driven by fear or need or greed. I want my work to represent me as a person, so I can be quite fussy.

I only make movies that are interesting to me.

I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'

I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do.

I can't be a spokesman for anything other than my own concerns. I have to be free to wrestle with my own preoccupations, and if I'm bringing any political awareness to that process, that mitigates my freedom.

I only make movies I want to go see.

My films, no one else will do.

I'm doing the kind of show that I would want to see.

I never wanted to be a feature - that was never the goal with my music. I didn't want to just live through other people's work.

I want to be a genuine artist who has a say in what I do.

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 think everybody goes off and does their own vision. And I don't take responsibility for other people's work, frankly. It's bad enough taking responsibility for my own.