Quotes About Originality

I was always attracted to taking a novel position, but one grounded in the materials I'd been given, not made up out of whole cloth.

Half the stuff I have done which has been successful would never have been made if it had been shown to focus groups.

Just, always remember that it's important to be your own person, and as you grow up, you start appreciating the things that make you different.

Guys is supposed to be able to be original and dress like how they want to dress. The NBA can't dress no grown man.

I guarantee you that two directors that are any good can take the same story, change the name of the characters, change the name of the town, and make an entirely different picture.

I make an attempt to do different kinds of films. There's no such formula for guaranteed success.

I think to truly not know what to expect out of the story - to create a world where nothing is guaranteed - is sort of the backbone of 'Atlanta.'

You can't compare my numbers to the other point guards. I'm a different kind of player - if you like it or not.

I don't think I dress eccentrically. I'm just not conservative, I guess - I dress according to what like. And I'm not a mannequin, as you can tell.

My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time.

I'm a guitar player. I've carved out my own style of guitar music, so I don't look for inspiration with playing guitar.

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

I don't deviate - once you get validated for being you, I don't know why you would deviate. I stick to my gut and my taste.

I'm saying nobody's got the guts to be a J. Cole. Nobody's got the guts to be a Kendrick Lamar. We need more of them... Everybody wants to go the easy route.

To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen the wrong subject; that you've chosen the right subject, but that someone else has, unbeknownst to you, already written exactly the book you're laboring over.

I think not having come from the DJ world was an asset to me at first because I didn't have some of the habits other DJs had, and I think in a way that set me apart.

It's a fine line between hack and good comedy.

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.

I'm not cutting my hair because I'm not going to be fake.

Flashy people aren't everything, you know. Even when they have frizzled hair.

I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.

I wanted to be like 'Kids in the Hall.'

I didn't want to write a cheffy cookbook with dehydrated ham chips.

Hamilton' doesn't compare to anything I've ever done.