Quotes About Originality

Genre hopping is something I intend to do, and I intend to do it forever and ever because I think genres are boring.

It's important to make art that you intended to make. If it gets compromised later, that's not a good thing.

To be true to a play, you can't add something that takes away from the author's intent.

My intention is not to make clothes. My head would be too restricted if I only thought about making clothes.

The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible.

It's always been my intention to never be boxed in. I never like to do something that it feels like I've done before.

With 'Daud,' basically, I wanted to make a very 'Mad Max' kind of a film: that was my original intention.

I do my work with only one intention: that I have to think different, nothing else matters to me. I don't get involved in any other things.

We don't really intentionally try to sound like ourselves. I think that would be overthinking.

I think that Zappa intentionally made his music weird, but did it with intelligence.

When I read a script and have my first interaction with this character, do I feel like there's something I'm gonna' learn here? If I feel like it's something I've done before, then what's the incentive for me to do it?

Art doesn't interest me. Only artists interest me.

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

The more you are different, the more interesting. The more you are not like me, the more I want to get to know more about you.

Women just make interesting characters, especially when you're working against cliches.

I think I have some interesting things to say and I don't think anybody out there is saying them.

I have a lot of weird interests, but everything I do is artistic.

I like having my cellphone. I like the Internet. I like being different.

Echo & the Bunnymen just copied 'People Are Strange,' which is cool, we made some money, thanks. But when an artist finds a new interpretation of one of your songs, that's great. It turns your head around.

What is the difference between a truly creative artist and an interpretive artist? I have not concluded anything about that, but it's fair to ask the question.

Sometimes, the other characters are too normal and then you start to be brought back to reality but then Luna shows up and she is just so funny and cool and honest and slightly mad and she's all that matters. She is 100% true. She puts on no shows, because she is so comfortable with herself.

Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

Better mendacitiesThan the classics in paraphrase!