Quotes About Control

Scoring first changes everything. It makes everything easier for us.

If you have a screaming angry director, everyone else will be panicked as well.

Anything you see on the screen was at one point approved by me.

As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control.

You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done.

We'd like to prearrange our life on all levels. We'd prefer it to be scripted. But it's not.

Reality in America is heavily scripted, very edited, and they have a say in what goes on TV and what doesn't.

I think we'd like to direct. Not so much because we'd like to be directors... we'd like to see how one of our scripts would do if it didn't get changed.

The way that I play is, I'm in the driver's seat.

I don't care about keeping seats of power.

I think I can get back to a place where I'm more in control and there are small blips, as opposed to massive wobbles every two seconds.

If you know someone's secret, what power does that give you? How much power does that really give you? What can you do with secrets?

No group in any sector can go anywhere without rules.

You have to be secure with the ball. You can't lose it.

A DJ is nice and secure to have where there's a set playlist that you can kind of create yourself and then you know for sure what you're going to get.

The power of incumbency and the power of money is just overwhelming.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

If I'm owed money, but I say, 'Don't pay me, pay my cousin. Don't pay me, pay my charity,' you can do that, but then the IRS requires that you pay income tax on that. It's your income if you earned it and you directed where it went. If you exercised control over where the money went, you have to pay income tax on that.

The ego is not master in its own house.

I'm my own boss, you know?

Fishermen own the fish they catch, but they do not own the ocean.

I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.

We tend to assume that data is either private or public, either owned by one person or shared by many. In fact there's more to it than that, above and beyond the upsetting reality that private data is now anything but.

Looking back, I couldn't get enough fights because Don King owned most of the top 10 fighters, and he never gave me a fight.