Quotes About Originality

Michael Fassbender is just a creative force: he finds authenticity in singularity with what he brings, and it's always authentic. He doesn't try to be creative and different for the sake of it.

Collage is not a kitchen sink; it's not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.

Whatever you do, don't sink your life's savings into cliche items.

I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I have a sister Lisa and another sister Maggie, so I drew all of them. I was going to name the main character Matt, but I didn't think it would go over well in a pitch meeting, so I changed the name to Bart.

My sister called her pillow a pilgo. My brother called his pacifier his nimma. But I don't think I was much of a word generator myself.

When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother was always telling him that he should write them down, but he would say, 'Well, they've all been done before. There are so many blooming books in the world - why should I write another one?'

No one in my family was creative. One of my sisters went to a university, and pretty much, most of my siblings live a basic and dull lifestyle.

It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.

I don't sit there writing songs, thinking, 'This would be good for Rihanna.' I don't want to be pitching out like that.

A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they're right to some extent, in that the shows they're putting out are all the same.

I'd like to do a show that's not a sitcom.

I think a challenge with every sitcom is, how do you maintain things that people are attached to without becoming so reiterative that it just feels like you're sort of watching a reenactment of previous episodes?

The family sitcom has been around forever, since the advent of television. I don't need to reinvent it. But if you take something and you do it in a way that you haven't necessarily seen before, that's right where I live.

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

Sitcoms are making a comeback, but you've got to have a little quirkiness in there now.

It feels like animation has a little more independence than traditional sitcoms ever did.

I've said from the start that I'm not going to write kiddie sitcoms.

Seriously, I don't think there's any right way to do anything apart from if you're just being you; then it's a sincere situation.

When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.

I write everything I do. On the average, it takes you about sixty months from the first molecule of an idea to it being in front of an audience. I'm actually somebody that creates their own stuff.

It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.

What irritates me are bands that pretend they've never heard of the Misfits or Danzig, but they've got the skeleton shirt.

I'm pretty skeptical about Hollywood and its fascination with the sequel and the franchise.

When you try to create something different, there is always a mix of enthusiasm and skepticism, and I think this is fair.