Quotes About Originality

I wouldn't necessarily wear what everybody is wearing unless it makes me feel good.

The songs that are getting recreated by us or fellow industry friends are because these songs were gold in their time and needed to be heard even today. Remixing them is a way to make them popular to the youth of today who haven't heard them before.

One big learning from Thiel fellowship was think really big and create an impact, without thinking if anybody has done it before.

I see myself as the female John Cleese.

I love the female characters in 'She-Ra.' There isn't another show quite like it.

I'm not a bleeding-heart feminist, but I do like to call out that stuff in my act. It's nice when you find a perspective that no one has hit on.

I always try to be myself, be it a festival crowd or my own crowd.

I don't set out to make a film for festivals abroad.

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

I only know one way to sing, and thats me. I cant morph who I am as an artist into two different fields; I can just be who I am at all times.

There's fifty bands doing my riffs for ever and ever.

I don't want to be a cookie-cutter-poster-boy-bubble-gum-chewing fighter.

I don't want to look like all the other fighters. I've been proud to not be or act or look like any other fighters.

We're fighting to be ourselves in a world that's trying to make us like everyone else.

I knew that I had to find my own voice, both figuratively and literally.

Don't try to walk in someone else's shoes - literally and figuratively. Wear what you feel confident in.

You can't live in someone else's shoes; you've got to branch out and fill your own shoes.

I would never try to fill John Lewis's shoes. I can only be myself - my authentic self.

I always say that AMC hires filmmakers, and they let them be filmmakers.

When dealing with HBO, you actually are dealing with real filmmakers.

It's harder and harder to scare people, and filmmakers are aware of that, and they're making the movies better, and I think they feel more original, which I always like.

I think it's time British filmmakers stopped allowing themselves to be colonized so ruthlessly by U.S. ideas and stopped looking so slavishly to the U.S. market. It demeans filmmaking when they do that.

You know, I'm speaking for myself. I didn't like to have to speak filtering for what I thought somebody else would or wouldn't want me to say.