Quotes About Originality

People are fed up of formula films, and we are getting new space to experiment.

You should never lose the formula that worked for you from the beginning, no matter how big you get.

For songs to be big, I don't think there's a certain formula to it.

I don't want to do the song-dance formula; there are many people doing it, right?

You can do a formula film and walk the conventional path, but it may not work at all.

It's so funny that Hollywood has become so entrenched in its formulas. Because what I've experienced is that the good stuff comes from places you don't expect.

First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.

I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.

I'm really fortunate because, in my career, I haven't had to deal with anybody trying to make me something I'm not.

I have developed my own brand of acting, and fortunately, people like it.

I never tried to sing like anybody else, fortunately I didn't sound like anybody else. It just happened.

I have been so copied by those people who have made fortunes that people assume I am that rich. But I did things for the excitement, the dare, the fact that it was new, not for the money. And too many times I was the first, not the beneficiary.

When Fox asked me if I'd consider taking on The X-Men universe for television, my first thought was, 'What would you do with those stories or that genre that hasn't been done?'

The worst frame of mind to be in is what the fans like or what the fans want, because then you lose the authenticity of who you are as an artist and who you are as a person.

I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.

You are not going to change me and if you do, it will look like a fraud, it will be a fraud.

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

I am a big believer in letting your own personal freak flag fly.

I'm a big believer in letting your freak flag fly.

I have always been Fred Durst and I've always been me.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

I've always been open to the idea of an adaptation that does its own thing, that freely diverges from the original as long as it's true to the spirit.

I don't got nobody writing my lyrics and that's why I freestyle.

French cinema has always been very interesting, and it's still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it's great to still have a cinema that doesn't try to emulate, for example, American cinema.