Quotes About Originality

What makes a song last is real content from a mind that is thinking a little bit harder about certain things. A lot of artists don't really think that hard.

I'm not interested in thinking up the name of a band and a logo and all that. Been there, done that, sold a million T-shirts.

American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

The price of self-empowerment is what I call it. Somebody who thinks outside the box.

I've always had my own opinions and have always been somebody who thinks outside the box.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

If anyone thinks they have set a formula for success, that's not true. Because if that were to happen then people would only be copying that formula and every following film would be a copy alone.

Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.

'2001: A Space Odyssey' is a movie that really impressed me as a teenager. And also 'Blade Runner.' And 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is also one of my favorites. I'm always looking for sci-fi material, and it's difficult to find original and strong material that's not just about weaponry.

I had my pants backward, cut a hole in my baseball cap, stuck my ponytail through it . I wanted to be the third member of Kris Kross.

So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field.

My personal feeling about reboots is - I'm very against it. I feel bad for the pop culture of this generation because I feel like they're getting a lot of retread... a lot of digested and vomited stuff from our teens and 20s and all of that.

I am Thomas Muller, and I want to be like me.

I don't think Paul Thomas Anderson has a standard approach to anything.

I love to read the kind of books I write. Genre-breaking. Fresh-concept. World-building. My all-time top three authors would have to be Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Harris, and Pat Conroy.

Every now and then we get one voice which stands out, a really unique voice we embrace, like a Josh Thomas.

One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.

It's no longer possible to simply build English country houses out of words, because they've already been so thoroughly described that all the applicable words have been used up, and one is forced to build them instead out of words recycled and scavenged from other descriptions of other country houses.

It's true that I have never done something like 'Yaar Dhokebaaz, Pyaar Dhokebaaz.' I colored my hair golden-brown. I am bare-chested in the song and have my own style of dancing. I thoroughly enjoyed what I was doing.

Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

'Thou shalt not bore' is a commandment that should be at the centre of our ambitions.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

I don't see myself in competition with anyone, I am in my own space; I don't follow anyone, though I appreciate good work always.