Ownership Issues Quotes

Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It's difficult when you're used to owning the copyright and having a landlord's possessory rights - I rent my plays to the companies that do them and, if I'm upset, I can pull the play. But the only two directors I've worked with are pretty great.

What belongs to everybody belongs to nobody.

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.

It's hard for new artists to keep hold of what they own.

Don't ever have two dogs. That way you won't know which one to blame.

When people asked to buy my work I always said no. I'd had this rather rarefied idea that I didn't want money going through my head while I was making work. But after the car crash I realized that none of my work was owned by anyone. After that, I grew up a bit.

With the cloud, you don't own anything. You already signed it away.

You can't talk about big data without talking about things like privacy and ownership.

I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.

I have a problem with Porsches. They're wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one. Somehow, the typical Porsche people-and I wish them no ill-are not, I feel, my kind of people. I don't go around saying that Porsches are a pile of dung, but I do know that psychologically I couldn't handle owning one.

Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.

Manchester City are built on sand and I don't mean that because their owners are from the Arab countries.

The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations.

We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do?

Oh, I got a beautiful 1959 Cadillac Coupe DeVille four-door. No one will ride in it with me.

If someone wants to be very tight about authenticity or ownership, it just sounds kind of competitive to me.

A lot of times when a film is a success, the fans of that film take ownership of it - it becomes their property.

Sharing's only fun when it's not your stuff.

With Marvel, I obviously don't own the characters, so there are levels of approval to go through. But I'm very seldom told no, and never without reason. Maybe I've just been lucky; I don't know, but I don't think it's as frustrating as people generally imagine. I act as though I own it all while I'm writing, I think. I hope, anyway.