Quotes About Originality

It's impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.

I think everyone is most confident when they are just being themselves and not trying to impress others.

I wouldn't want to go see a comedian if he was using the same jokes. So I'm not going out there trying to do the same thing that and my body's changed, my life's changed and really if people have already seen me do something a 1,000 times, 1,001 is not going to impress anybody.

With bad sci-fi - sci-fi that I don't really like - you watch it and get the impression that you're just seeing exactly what they created because they needed it in the movie. You feel like there's nothing more beyond that.

Animation has been ghettoized through the years by giving the impression we only do the same kind of stories.

I don't do impressions.

To see somebody create something from nothing is incredibly impressive.

I'm definitely not trying to go out of my way to create my own image or ensure my own imprint.

I think that I can improv.

I've always been into improvisation.

Everything is real but we write the jokes too and improvise them.

With 'Friday Night Lights,' we were encouraged to make it our own and improvise as much as we wanted.

Very early on, I started improvising. I was more interested in the music that came out of me than any music I heard.

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.

In the end, I want to try to be myself.

The real artists are ultimately people who don't consider their audience and are almost incapable of considering their audience. They can do what they do and fire themselves up.

I don't really see myself in a lineage which is fine with me. Sometimes I do try to explicitly copy an exact song, an arrangement, a sound - and I fail. And so you can't even tell I was trying to do that thing. It makes sense in my own head but I'm incapable of copying.

I've lost so many gigs composing commercial or television music because I can't repress my inclination to work against conventions.

I write my own lyrics; I can incorporate my own ideas. And yes, apparently, people think it's cool. That's pretty awesome.

What I tell people usually is - don't look at others and be like them. Instead, find out ways in which you can augment yourself and increase your capabilities and use it in different ways.

The world of entertainment is, like the world of fashion, becoming increasingly populated by those who don't want to do things the same old boring way.

Chaos can be incredibly creative.

From being at art college, I've always hated people that have the gall to think that they're being incredibly different when they're doing something in a very acceptable way, something safe that they've seen someone else doing.

I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.