Quotes About Originality

You shouldn't want to imitate people if it doesn't fit with your own style.

I feel like I was trying to imitate other people or trying to be something I wasn't.

The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

I'm into emulation, not imitation.

Imitation is a caricature. Any imitation. Find out for yourself.

I wouldn't disrespect myself or my art with any imitations.

One doesn't have to resort to cheap imitations of characters or people around you to make others laugh. At least, that is what I've always believed in.

I wanted 'Imitations' to be a fully realized record from start to finish, with a cohesive sound and a sequence that took you from one song to the other, just like I would with a record of original stuff.

I want to make my music a genre that people can immediately identify: something that never existed.

I read certain articles about how all of the new filmmakers are immediately being given massive tentpoles, and there's a lot of original movies that we have now lost as a result of this. I don't want to call it a fad because I think it's a good thing. I think the movies are better as a result.

It's not immediately categorisable. I don't know what to say when anyone asks what the 'Boosh' is.

We encourage employees to ship new features on day one, which immediately encourages them to come up with something creative and different.

I think you can study too much. I've seen that happen. Young people get immersed in the work of other directors and end up imitating them rather than finding their own identity.

I don't know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way.

Creativity is a business imperative.

I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that, and be the extremes of your personality. Show the extremes of your personality and embrace the imperfections. Embrace the things about yourself that you might not like.

Lots of guys have tried to impersonate John Madden and it just doesn't work.

I'm not really an impersonator.

I don't shy away from things that may be a little different, but own them and implement them in the coverage that I do.

Content is now the most import factor that decides a film's success at the box office, so we as filmmakers are all trying different stories.

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

I think of a band like Animal Collective where they really follow their own sound and I think that's a really important thing to do. You can find an audience if you can find your voice.