Quotes About Originality

Hendrix was a different kind of guitar player. It was like, 'Holy cow, this guy can sing, he can play all this weird stuff... what is this?' It was a new kind of music.

What I learned on 'Homicide' was that each show deserves its own look.

I want to go make an original movie. It's all very personal, but I want to define myself a little bit more as a filmmaker and hone my craft.

Honestly, it's really fun to be yourself. It's really fun to be me.

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

I hoped 'Tashan' would be a clutter-breaker.

The last thing you want to do is blend in. You want to stand out, and hopefully in a good way.

Critics who complain that we don't do anything new will hopefully be happy with 'Oopiri.'

I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.

You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.

Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.

Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with.

With the exception of 'Descent,' that was a very conscious thing to make an action or horror movie that was an all-female cast because I hadn't seen anything like that before.

A lot of what I've done has a rock edge, even going back to 'Little Shop of Horrors.'

Some actors want to keep riding the horse that made them famous, but it's not interesting to me. I like to turn an archetype on its head.

I didn't want to do the whole, get the hottest person thing. I wanted to make sure every record felt right.

The name Albert Murray was never household familiar. Yet he was one of the truly original minds of 20th-century American letters.

I'd love more production houses to encourage artists to create what they want and not just churn things out.

You're allowed to be a little bit weird and still get massive attention. The fact that a Solange can work or a Daniel Caesar can work or even how far Kendrick Lamar has gotten. People are getting more comfortable.

I don't think about how many times how many heroines have said 'I love you' to how many heroes on screen and that I am also doing the same. It is how differently I can say the same thing in my own style or how I can bring a new element into it.

You have to get in the limelight based on what you do, how creative you are, and not how much money you make.

It's not always about huge giant commercial success. It's about art.

A human being is not a machine. Especially when it comes to creating.

I think it is one of the capacities of human beings, to create style.