Quotes About Originality

And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really.

You don't worry about being liked. You have to be yourself.

If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't worry about what anybody thinks.

I think if you believe in an idea, then you should put it out there and be as original to the thought as possible without worrying about the risk.

When no one knows you, and you're just trying to break into stuff, it's so good because you can write whatever you want and just say it; it's just between you and the audience. There's no process or worrying about anyone else interfering with what you're doing.

I'm deeply appreciative that many people have enjoyed my films, films that I made in my own style. The successes have helped me learn how to make films free of expectations and focus solely on the pure filmmaking aspect, without worrying about how much money it'll make.

Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.

You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you.

I wanted the songs to be themselves, instead of worrying about all this crazy slickster production.

Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.

I can't think of anything worse, really, than to try to live up to someone else's expectations of what you should be. You don't make art by consensus.

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.

People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!

I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative.

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.

Best advice: 'Just be yourself.' Worst advice: 'Just be yourself.'

The worst acting is about imitation.

My goal is to not fit in. My worst nightmare is being the baby version of another artist.

The worst costume is when you don't have a costume.

The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.

I think the worst thing you can do is blend in. Why would you ever want to blend in?