Quotes About Control

I'm normally quite restrictive in the runs department.

England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.

North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find ways to shape it in accord with their own narratives - or risk having their narratives shaped by others.

Everything in North Korea was about the leader, all the books, music and TV.

North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.

China is the one, the only one, that can control Kim Jong Un, this crazy, fat kid that's running North Korea.

If you think about it, the people of Cuba and North Korea will never meet because, well, they have restricted freedom of movement.

The best thing is to go public only when you're absolutely sure that's the right move for the company. And in order to make sure that is the case, you need to have as much control over the company as possible, which means not giving up control early on.

I like people with conviction, who are in control of themselves. I'm not interested in working with a designer who hires a creative director.

David and I got cut out the editing process on that. We were able to affect it more than not. We sent in our notes, we were able to see cuts. We weren't allowed to see dailies and we weren't allowed to sit in the editing room and just work.

All, or nearly all, the advantage there is in fixing any constitutional limits to the power of a government, is simply to give notice to the government of the point at which it will meet with resistance.

When you watch your favorite guitarists play, notice how little their hands and fingers move sometimes. The economy of motion can't be overemphasized.

When you start dictating culture, money gets involved and people take notice.

There's this notion of women's bodies being out of control - so out of control that men don't understand it at all.

I happen to be notorious. That, I have no control over.

I come from theatre, and I feel like I have to go back to it every few years because it's like nourishment for the soul. And, as an actor, it's the place you have most control: no one cuts or edits you, and you get to tell the story each night.

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks of your day, or are at the mercy of flawed giant beings, then the desire to bend the laws of the world by magic is strong and deep.

Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

Novels give you the opportunity to create a whole world. Because you create people, you make them talk... You decide who they are, whether they live or die. It's the closest thing to feeling like a god that you can come to.

Every now and then I get angry, but fortunately, when I do, it's like watching a little dog try to attack something - it's something I'm not very good at.

Many filmmakers have had that experience. They make a movie, then out of nowhere, they either pass censorship or fail.