Quotes About Originality

That's how things work: you be who you are, and then people like you. They gravitate.

I think anytime you can do something you haven't seen or done in a film before, it's always a great day as an actor.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

My early experiences in animation taught me that following someone else is not a great idea.

I have this belief that if you have an idea, and you have to write it down to remember it, then it can't be a great idea.

I've always had great ideas.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

I just want to make great music. There's not a genre that I would categorize it as, but I want it to be true and authentic.

Great music and great artists create their own music and look and are not manufactured.

It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing.

Luckily, I don't have to be anybody but Yolanda, because people don't expect me to be anything other than who I am. For an artist, it's a great place to be.

My first feature, I made in France. There's a great respect for the author there - they don't change your stuff.

I think the great thing about 'Ashes To Ashes' is that it is very much its own show.

A great thing about kids is they're just themselves and can't help it a lot of the times.

The great thing about fashion is that you can create a very unique version of yourself to display to the world.

The great thing about being a great band is that it takes risks.

You know what's a great way of tricking people into thinking you're a genius? Write a show about geniuses!

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

At a certain point, you have to decide whether you'd be satisfied always acknowledging the beauty and the greatness of what other people create or if you want to be in the same arena.

I don't understand why everyone has to wear black, grey and white.

If I had done a sequel to 'Day of the Tentacle,' there probably wouldn't have been a 'Full Throttle.' If I did a 'Full Throttle' sequel, there wouldn't have been a 'Grim Fandango.' It's important to make new stuff up.

Of course, 'True Grit' is a Western, but we never considered our film a classical Western and honestly never thought about genre at all. We didn't talk about John Ford or Sergio Leone, even though we like their films. Really, we were driven only by our enthusiasm for Charles Portis's book.

It's never a matter ever, ever - are - we're never trying to gross anybody out, or ever are we trying to shock people. We're just trying to make it funny in a way that makes the audience go, 'You know, that was the first joke they thought of, and they weren't afraid to do it.'

I see myself as attempting to break ground. I definitely am trying to create my own genre here... I'm attempting to tell stories in a very new and entertaining way.