I felt I would have the most creative freedom making…

I figured I would be teaching my whole life and making experimental films on the side.

— Todd Haynes

“Your true freedom is making your own decisions.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“As philosophy professor Dale Miller asks, “if the business owner is willing to accept less responsibility for her decisions, then why should she expect…

— John Corvino

There's a great freedom you get when you're making TV that you don't get when you're doing film.

— Kieran Bew

If I waited until I felt creative, I would never have had a career. I long ago learned that a day that starts out…

— Dean Koontz

I got to the point of insanity, but I also got out, but during the insane times, I felt invincible, and I felt creative…

— Duff McKagan

Music was something I had put aside to make movies. Somehow I earlier felt there was only so much creative energy allotted to your…

— Farhan Akhtar

The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act.

— Lawrence Halprin

“I wasn’t a prostitute; I was an artist who used her fingers to paint a fantasy that her body fulfilled. And when I was…

— Marni Mann

There were the usual types of things that happen, in a production, like logistical bullshit, and this and that and the other. That's the…

— Ben Mendelsohn

There is no safe zone now: whether it's commercial or experimental films, the audience wants content. Otherwise, they reject the film.

— Naga Chaitanya

Free time keeps me going. It's just something that's always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and I made…

— Gus Van Sant

I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap.

— Jim Coleman

I want to do experimental films.

— Manini Mishra

I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make…

— Gus Van Sant