Freddie Wong Quotes

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.

No matter where I am working, I cannot make a film without 100% creative control and final cut. If there is such a guarantee, I can work anywhere.

One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.

That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.

Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.

All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.

It's so amazing that you can give somebody like David Fincher 'House of Cards,' and he can do whatever he wants - Netflix doesn't say, 'Oh, you can't do that,' or, 'We need a subplot here about this.' It's pretty neat that it is allowing the creatives to be creative.

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.

No one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn't tell what to say, how is someone else going to?

I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.

I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.

I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

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

I'll tell you what, I had complete control on 'Unleashed.' I directed, produced, chose the musician, picked the costumes, and everything. I never had anyone saying, 'I don't like this and I don't like that.' The studio, Universal, were easy. It was this weird movie no one cared about.

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've got more creative control when I do music.

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.

But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.

The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.

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.'

Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows.

Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.

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.