Quotes About Control

I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.

I don't get to cook in my own restaurant.

I'm a good authoritarian figure; I don't know why. 'Can you be a cop?' Sure. 'Can you be a Marine?' Absolutely. Well, at least in a movie.

Routine is part of coping.

When the cops are trying to arrest you, if you fight back, things go wrong.

People want to listen to a lot of music and do whatever they want with it. They don't want DRM, they don't want subscriptions. They don't want a player that only can do this but can't do that and you only have one copy. They don't want that. You know? I don't want that.

Dancing is all about your core.

Life, especially in America, is ruled by corporations.

More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.

Corporations always are controlling things, and we have the ability every day to do something about that. Every day.

Film can do lots of things: It can produce alternative ideas, ask questions, just record the reality of what's happening, it can analyze what's happening. Of course, most commercial films are controlled by big corporations who have an interest in not doing those films.

What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.

A boss is all about good business, so start with everything that you can control and you can turn up that costs you nothing, then lay all the knobs out, look at all the controls, all the remotes, and just turn them all up. It don't cost you nothing.

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.

I have only one counsel for you - be master.

You can't count on things happening if you're not in control of them happening.

I don't believe in luck. I don't believe in destiny. Instead, I believe that our lives are powered by countless microdecisions.

They know, the courts know, the people know that they have no way of changing the results as it affects them.

I remember being, like, the age of 7 and just always being in control of something or someone, a baby somewhere. I had lots of cousins and brothers, and we were all taught that's how you are, you know. Things don't just run themselves; you have to make them run.

I don't celebrate really crazy.

I can be as crazy as anybody and go over lines I should not go over.

Things have to sell, of course, but if I don't want to put bags on the runway, we don't put bags on the runway. I have complete creative control.

I've got more creative control when I do music.

I need to find a way of retaining creative control.