Quotes About Originality

I don't feel like there has ever really been anyone like me, and I'm starting to realize that. Not in a cocky way, but in a very humbling way.

There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already been made.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

One thing I have that the majority of other designers don't is humor. That's distinctly my approach, and it was distinctly Franco Moschino's, too.

I try to bring it across on my record, in my dress, in what I do and what I say because to me humor is important. You should have a dose of that and I guess giving it is what I'm here for.

What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

Humour is ahead of everything creatively. I think if things aren't humorous, they are just crap.

You're not gonna write a hundred songs and have a hundred entirely different ideas. It's a matter of finding the ones that are the freshest and most unique.

Everybody wants you to do this thing that you've always been doing forever. That's what they want: they want Martin Scorsese to make the same film two hundred times rather than trying to be something different.

There are hundreds of players who are trying to be a Beckham or Cantona but do not have the personality, and they fail.

For all the hundreds of scripts that are out there, there's not that many that are amazing.

When people slave over those scripts and pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for them, they don't usually want you to add farts.

I believe in myself enough to not get hung up on what other people are doing, or what I should be writing, or the nature of how I'm writing. I'm just able.

I think that the thing that is really strong with 'The Hunger Games' is just that it comes from a very strong idea.

Uno no toma prestado el código del vecino.

I was the embodiment of every writer's worst fear: a cliché.

We named the bar The Bar. People will think we're ironic instead of creatively bankrupt, my sister reasoned. Yes, we thought we were being clever New Yorkers - that the name was a joke no one else would really get, like we did. Not meta-get ... But our first customer, a gray-haired woman in bifocals and a pink jogging suit, said, I like the name. Like in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Audrey Hepburn's cat was named Cat.

We named the bar The Bar. "People will think we're ironic instead of creatively bankrupt," my sister reasoned.

It seemed to me that there was nothing new to be discovered ever again. Our society was utterly, ruinously derivative (although the word derivative as a criticism is itself derivative). We were the first human beings who would never see anything for the first time. We stare at the wonders of the world, dull-eyed, underwhelmed. Mona Lisa, the Pyramids, the Empire State Building. Jungle animals on attack, ancient icebergs collapsing, volcanoes erupting.

what we are above all other things, is individual and different.

Not Business as Usual, but Business Absolutely Unusual. Ray Lyman Wilbur

In this I resemble God at the moment he created the universe with a single fart.

no similes. Nothing is like anything else. Things are themselves entirely and do not need interpretation, only a minimal respect for their precise integrity.

Nothing is like anything else. Things are themselves entirely and do not need interpretation, only a minimal respect for their precise integrity.