Work Control Quotes

I don't have to work just to work anymore. More interesting parts come my way, so I can afford to say, 'I don't want to make that.'

Your life must be a progression towards ownership - first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.

It's all about the mood I'm in and the scene I'm writing. 'Cause work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life. So I don't listen to any music that's not an influence on what I'm working on that day. Music is a big influence in my work and sometimes drives the energy of where I want to go.

Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.

Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done.

Once you learn how to say no, that's about the only place that you'll have control of your work and what you do.

So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them.

I worry that I will lose control over the projects I get to work on.

I really do like to work. I will work again. But on my terms.

But if it’s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that brain to somebody for eight hours a day for their particular use on the presumption that, at the end of the day, they will give it back in an unmutilated condition? Fat chance!

When I had Mason, I was really ready to leave the business of acting, but still wanted to do work that I could control.