Quotes About Originality

I don't do that much sampling. I create all my own sounds.

I've always written by myself. I've never been in a situation where the whole band sat in a room and wrote a song. I don't work that way.

I am a rooted person, 'Awwal' is a social satire.

You just get satisfaction from achieving something that you just don't get in any other way than from being creative.

I'm not satisfied sitting in just the world of abstract work.

I should be satisfied first as an actor with my work. I will not do something because everyone is doing it.

If you go for the money first and try to think of what other people want to see, you change your original inspiration and perhaps put out something that's less original and less personal and maybe less satisfying.

In order to write music, you need lots of Tabasco sauce.

I'm never scared what people are gonna think about music that I make.

I have to live authentically at all times. And that's part of what makes me an artist. I'm not scared to do that.

I'm not your cookie-cutter athlete, and that scares people. People don't know how to take that.

It can be a scary thought to do something that's never been done before.

I care less if I can't be part of your scene because I am the scene. I am everything that is.

Science fiction is not formulaic.

There's no one 'right' way of making a science fiction movie; there's no one way of making any kind of movie, really!

I've not used a score in any of my films so far.

We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese.

I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.

That's what I've always wanted to do - work with my favorite writers and make something from scratch with them that we can feel like didn't exist before we came in the room.

It is easier to rewrite anything - even the worst writing in the world - than it is to write something from scratch.

I would love to do a project with all of my female friends and create something from scratch and have some female-driven story with the women in my life who are so strong, confident, and beautiful inside and out.

It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I had were also incorporated into the script.

I always write the script by myself.

At some point, I would like to start creating my own things. If people don't write the scripts I like, then I will do my own.