Robert Gottlieb Quotes

I always wanted to be different and do things differently. I was a pain in the neck. I was challenging everything you wanted me to do and challenging people in school.

Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby.

My early experiences in animation taught me that following someone else is not a great idea.

I don't like being told what to do, and I don't need to be told what my record should sound like.

I don't like following in people's footsteps; I like making my own trail.

I've seen Chance and the Social Experiment build their own careers in the way that's most authentic to them.

I’VE ALWAYS BEEN A REBEL. I NEVER DO THINGS THE WAY THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BE DONE. EITHER I GO IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION OR I CREATE A NEW DIRECTION FOR MYSELF, REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE RULES ARE OR WHAT SOCIETY SAYS.

And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.

I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told what to do. I think it goes back to school. I like to do things I want to do and I really don't like doing what I don't want to do.

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker.

I want to be able to go wherever I want to go, do whatever I want to do. I guard the material and the filmmaker.

I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.

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.

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a rock star, not an actor. It means I can do what I want on my own terms.

I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

That's my actual payment, the fact that I can actually make something that I actually enjoy and put on repeat, and it's not related to anything else or anyone else's thoughts and ideas, it all came from me; I just love that aspect of it.

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.

My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it.