Quotes About Originality

Ronald Reagan was the best Ronald Reagan ever, and Ronald Reagan was a cool guy. You're not Ronald Reagan. You can't run as him; you can't relive his career. You can't just have somebody else's career. You have to be you.

Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels.

I don't rely on the strength of my image.

No, we'll never get back together. We'll remain friends, but I see her going in a completely different direction than me musically. But she'll end up doing really well if she continues on the path she's on. Because she's doing something very original.

If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not necessarily read the book to see the film. If you do need that, then that means that it's a failure. That is what I think.

Well I think always, when you remake films, I always think the first one is most original, authentic.

I would never remake something that was like 'The Godfather.' Things that are truly important to me, I could never remake or reboot, or whatever.

You don't want to remake something that's just been made, as an actor.

I don't write any kind of sequel or remake.

I'm not copying Bipasha in 'Trishna.' It is no doubt a remake of 'Jism,' but there are certain differences.

I'm not a big fan of remakes. I never wanted to do a remake.

Whatever my father did were great films. I don't want to remake any of them.

I don't remake any movie, whether old or of other language.

I'm just curious how it'd look like if someone tried to remake my work. But I really believe that it's hard to remake of any of my work.

Remakes have been done forever. People talk about 'Scarface' and don't even know it was a remake.

Whether I do an original film, a dance, or a remake of my dad's hit songs, I have always been compared to him.

After 'Saw,' we got offered every horror remake under the sun, and I was just always thinking, 'I don't see how this could be interesting for me.'

Doing a remake is an open admission that, 'boss, I don't have anything of my own.'

Anyone can make things that are beautiful; we need to make things that are remarkable.

I didn't watch 'The A-Team' movie. I'm an artist. You can't re-paint a Rembrandt. You can't duplicate that; I don't care who you get.

I want to be remembered just as Fabricio Werdum, just the way I've always been.

Charlie Parker and Art Tatum to me were genius, and I'm right below that. I did, in my own way, do something different on the instrument, and that's the way I'd like to be remembered.

If I wanted to make a quick buck, there's far easier ways of doing it. What I want is to provoke people. If you want a hit song, all you need to do is rewrite an old song. It might have been proven to work, but you won't be remembered the same way.

To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.