Quotes About Originality

My eccentricity became direction.

I'm not confused about what's happening in fashion, because I follow my own direction and go.

The last thing on earth I wanted to do was make a movie that plays directly to a sort-of frat boy audience, you know?

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

I feel like I've been lucky, because I don't feel like I've ever tried to be somebody I'm not. People might disagree.

I don't like post-modernism. It's cynical, and takes no discipline - you just copy. It doesn't allow a film to be open to reality.

Definitely that's the worst, to discover that something you're doing has already been done.

Sometimes ideas feel like they were already there, and that you're just discovering them.

I've learned that I have to be happy with creating discussion and debate and that I shouldn't be trying to write a book that appeals to the consensus.

I think it's quite easy to get caught up in the discussions about a show that people are having. But you have to tell the story you were going to tell.

Comparison is a disease. I never felt any competition, since I never compared myself to others. I only focus on my work. I never feel pressurised and do films in my style. Also, I'm very active since childhood, and that gives me the edge to always put my best.

When Wes came back to Limp Bizkit, we really wanted to do something different. We wanted to make a core record that we didn't care who liked or who disliked.

I'm not making music for people who like Disney shows. I make music for people who like music.

I'm clean but I'm not Disney.

I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.

I feel like I have a distinct voice.

My music is not only different but distinctive.

I don't look at other people's work because I don't want to be distracted by their ideas.

I think I just need to be myself. I think that's what this 'Diva Search' competition is all about.

I'm big on diversity. My music is very diverse; I don't want it to ever be typecasted.

I'd like to have mass appeal, but not at the expense of what I am and what I do best.

Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist.

I like to experiment when it comes to music.

I've seen Chance and the Social Experiment build their own careers in the way that's most authentic to them.