Quotes About Originality

they take pride in it. Like Cinna.

Why don't you just be yourself? … No one can help but admire your spirit." -Katniss and Cinna

If the idea is stupid and crazy enough... It. Just. Might. Work

I feel like fashion is about being innovative and being able to turn something into something else, making it cool, and making it your own.

By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I always think, 'We don't need to ratchet this up.' If you do, don't call it 'Captain Phillips' or 'The Maersk Alabama.' Call it something else, and then you have carte blanche to do anything, down to sea serpents and aliens.

I find it a very, very powerful thing to be yourself and not to try and be something else and to use that as your biggest shield and your biggest attack in the world - to just be you.

Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.

I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.

There's real peril in trying to repeat yourself, and apply rules that applied to something else to a new project.

I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought.

We are cannibalizing our audience by only giving them regurgitated material. Every movie is either a remake, a sequel, based on something else. Based on a former television series. Based on a successful videogame.

If something gets too easy... I want to do something else. But every album is going to be me, no matter what.

I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.

I've always felt, and I think I'm qualified to say so because I've won a few awards, that it's a terrible shame to put something in competition with something else to be able to sell something.

Since the beginning, I have always tried to just be me. There have been moments in my career as a YouTuber where I've recognized that I'm trying to emulate something else, or I'm being heavily influenced by a YouTuber or something like that, and I realize that's not what I want to be putting out.

If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

I want people to say that I'm something new, something different. Something they've never seen before.

When some artistes give a hit song, they keep repeating themselves in the same genre. I always try to create something new.

You have to think of a new way to make something new. And the biggest sin - you can never try too hard. You can never look like you're just trying to shock people, 'cause that's simple. But making people laugh is the hard part.

That's the thing about musicians: The priority is to create something new that's never been before. And you put your life on the line every time that you play.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

You can't just be a rock star by rehashing things you've seen or done before. Bring something new, which is what hip-hop does best.