Quotes About Originality

We will never recreate 'Iowa.'

They made it very clear that I shouldn't try to be Data because there is only one Data, you can't ever recreate the magic that Brent Spiner made.

I would never try to recreate something 'bad' on purpose.

Don't recreate something that's already been created and is good. You want to have an idea, think of different idea. Don't think of someone else's idea.

Money is part of the game, but let's take this music as musicians to the next level, don't be recycling beats over and over and over again.

Everyone wants to get behind the red rope, but actually: be yourself, don't believe what you see, don't believe all this marketing.

The red carpet doesn't interest me. I think people become all the same; it's like everyone posing from the three-quarter angle in some low-cut, fitted dress; it's all the same.

I don't want the big flashing lights and red carpet, like, 'Here comes another Bon Iver album!' I just want it to be my bedroom-y thing. But that'll take a while to figure out.

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.

I actually think looking to the past for inspiration is pretty redundant.

All artists are redundant about their own style; they can't escape themselves.

People said that way back in the early days I was probably one of the first rappers; the reason is that I couldn't sing, so I had to talk! Lou Reed was probably the one who started it all.

I think when you talk about competing against others, the problem is that you refer to something that's been done already and try to beat it.

I never like to refer back to anything I've done when I'm working on a character, even if that character has the same occupation.

I'm never aiming to make a movie like someone else's movie, but in order to describe a movie to someone else who hasn't seen it, you usually have to reference things they have seen.

With new artists, you really don't have anything to reference. You're helping to develop their sound, define who they are vocally.

I didn't look at the previous 'A Wrinkle in Time' movie. I wrote ideas down from the book, but I didn't really want to copy that Meg. We're the same, but we're different at the same time. I wanted to make myself Meg. I didn't want to use somebody else or use a reference.

To begin with, I always want to go for scripts that do not have a reference in Hindi cinema. If it is novel and unique, it definitely has a better shelf value.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

You can't, as an actor, conduct yourself by making constant references to other people.

I don't particularly look at other artists when I'm working. But references do come into my work intuitively.

I'm in love with artists that are really difficult to cover or to copy. You can only try to copy them, but you will never succeed because it's intertwined with really personal references and really personal ways to exist on stage. They are really strong individuals, and are writing their own songs and know where they want to go.

There's a time and a place for a bit of realism, and it's bands like Arctic Monkeys that do it amazingly well. But why do bands have to recycle something that's already been done very well? We wanted to make interesting pop music, and to drop in literary references.

I'm not refined, I'm raw and real and I wear what I want and I have always been so different and golf is not that way.