Quotes About Control

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.

If you want to write the software to control the national medical system of a large country, Java is perfect.

I find it so funny how people that don't write the music, and have no involvement in it, can make such huge decisions on behalf of artists.

I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

In a larger sense, we all write our own destiny.

Let those who will - write the nation's laws - if I can write its textbooks.

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

If you write, produce and direct, you own things and see them through to the end.

I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

In the TV world, we are seeing a lot more power going to the writer. I sense it is a writer's medium.

I have never been in an ongoing series before and after series two I realized the writer has absolute control of your life.

I'm a writer of fiction. I try to write about my time, but it's dangerous if I'm seen as an investigative writer. I manipulate and change and control.

A novel and its writer are inseparable: you are your books. A play's not like that at all. 'Abandonment's not mine - it's everyone's. I wanted it to be a co-operative thing because I was tired of that anal control that I have over novels.

I think, in some ways, there's a point as a television writer that 'executive producer' is the natural credit you get, and it can be a vanity title, or you can make of it what you want.

I've been known to write 10 pages a day for 10 days running before I take a breath. I am not a disciplined writer. I'm one of those people who laughingly call themselves inspirational writers, which basically means someone who has no control over their own creative process.

Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they create characters and then just sort of follow them around through the narrative. I think that these writers are out of their minds.

Writers can feel pretty powerless in the big corporate world of publishing, but sometimes our greatest power is the ability to say 'no.'

Writers are in control of editing processes - making a sentence better, cutting out a paragraph. But the initial outpouring has very little to do with conscious control or manipulation.

When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers, so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die.

Writers are not always right however, but then again, I've been on shows where the actors have complete control and change everything and it's terrible.

There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes.

The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks.

TV is the place for writers to live. This is where you have creative control and you're constantly writing. 'Twilight' had almost a TV schedule to it. I was constantly working on these projects. There was not a whole lot of lull but I've gone onto other feature projects that's like, 'Okay, I'll get back to you on notes.'