I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.
When I've worked with established artists, I've naturally been more restricted, but you still have to take risks and push yourself to do something different.
I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that I have over what I'm doing is better for me as a solo artist.
I'm not someone that wants to control everything. I like to work with people that bring their talents to the project. So I like it when the makeup artist has a chance to do their work, when the dresser does their work, when the director does their work. They all come with stories and ideas to think about.
When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.
There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.
When I started writing, I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the more confused, and for an artist I think that is quite a good thing: you allow in more of your instinctual self; your dreams, fantasies and memories. It's richer, in a way.
I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.
I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.
I didn't want to just be an artist and let someone else have all that control over me. I knew I would have to produce.