Quotes About Originality

I don't want followers.

There were many, many other 'Django' films following mine, with other actors and directors, but there is only one 'Django.'

It feels like there are more good youts out there following their dreams. It's not just music; they're doing loads of stuff - they are getting creative and doing mad out of the box stuff.

I emphasise the following: don't, whatever happens, be anyone but yourself. Don't act anyone else-that would be fatal.

Personally, I'm not too fond of remakes.

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

Don't hate me 'cause I'm booed a fool!

You shoot yourself in the foot when you think, 'We have to get a good scary movie director to do a script by another scary movie writer.'

Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.

People expected me to be creative and true to myself. In that way, I follow my father's footsteps.

I don't want to follow in the footsteps of anybody that went before, because they didn't do what I want to do.

I try to not to worry too much about following in other's footsteps and just create my own path.

I've always played it my way. I failed media training, for example.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

First and foremost, I just have to be myself.

The word 'Spanx' was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it.

There are still great artists in the country format.

One of the things I did learn from 'The Epic' was that we don't have to feel so much pressure to conform to set formats. A song doesn't have to be three minutes and 30 seconds.

If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms.

If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms.

All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.

There's no formula.

Before, you only had one Public Enemy and one Rakim and one Salt 'N' Pepa. Now, people have got the formula, and some of them are just doing it for the cheque. It's kind of watered down.

We don't want to become like country artists where there's a formula.