Quotes About Originality

I create offbeat advice; I don't follow it. I rarely take third-party advice on my investments.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

My work rarely comes up in secondary market, so it means that my prices stay low.

As a traditionally risk-averse nation, India has rarely been at the forefront of innovation. Indian companies have mostly imitated others and became very good at it.

Rarely, someone comes around that is influenced by so many things but is looking for a new way to do something.

Hey, every once in awhile the secondary form works better than the original but it's certainly a rarity.

I hate the word 'cool.' It gives me a rash.

I would rather die than be a serious artist, or a fake artist.

Philly gives me that raw edge. We just do us.

'Dil Chahta Hai' was too raw. We only thought about the film. We never thought where the film was going to go. We wanted to make a film on our own terms.

I will a hundred percent sell out. Because I'll always be myself... my raw, authentic self.

As far as 'Dahmer' and 'Jumanji' are concerned, with both of them, they felt super raw and affecting, but in their own ways. I also thought 'Jumanji' was completely not trying to be anything except what it was, and I found it to be hilarious.

I love listening to demos. They're so raw.

My style is raw; my style is '95. My style is what I live. My style is my story.

I just like stuff that's raw, itself, real and genuine. I think that's the way art should be. That's the kind of stuff that people can connect to more.

I've always been drawn to raw material.

Ray Aghayan told me to be more flamboyant, but I have to be me.

We're all individuals. Lee Raymond is Lee Raymond. He has his style. I am Rex Tillerson, and I have my style.

I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is.

I think the illest thing about Wiz Khalifa is how true to himself he's always been, and I miss that from artists. Nothing about what he does ever felt like he was reaching to be something that he wasn't.

My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.'

I still think that, uh, the original draft from 'The Room' was brilliant in its own way. It made me laugh, which is - which is a good thing. It got a reaction.

I don't think you can write from a reactive place. I think you just write the thing you want to write about, and if other people are writing about it, that doesn't really come to bear on what you want to do.

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.