Quotes About Originality

Every now and then there might be a beat someone turned down that I have as an unused beat. But everything that predominantly matches the artist in my 30 years of doing this, it was me walking in and sitting there with no drums, no samples, no nothing, and making a beat on the spot.

To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different.

If you can do something exciting and unusual, you might as well give it a go.

It's important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.

You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual.

Why can't I be different and unusual... like everyone else?

Very unique: I was a singer-songwriter-guitarist. Very unusual in the late Seventies to find a singer-songwriter, and on top of that, a guitarist.

To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.

What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.

What I taught myself was that in any problem you get, you've got to come up with an innovative, brilliant, kind of unusual, stunning solution.

I always like to do something different, something unusual, stray off the path a bit.

The idea for any film is always going to be surprising or unusual.

I tend to be drawn to characters who are not rule followers, who behave in unexpected and unusual ways.

I love the content that COLORS showcases, it is very unusual and pathbreaking and hence I try to be part of these shows in my own way.

A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

I like to be myself, and I don't pretend. For instance, I don't dress up for occasions; I am what I am.

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

My gravity is always towards original material but 'Gerald's Game,' I read it when I was nineteen years old, I got to the end and had gooseflesh up and down my arms and the back of my neck, I put it down and said 'That's one of my favourite Stephen King novels... it's also unfilmable.'

If I feel like something needs to be updated, I'll break my neck to outdo the original.

I wish that more people were willing to turn down upfront money in exchange for doing things that are more original. Turning down a seven-figure check has a ripple effect on the budget, which has a ripple effect on the storytelling. The higher the budget gets, the fewer storytelling risks you're able to take.

The familiar can feel good - especially with so much uncertainty when we turn on the news. But it doesn't uplift us, challenge us, or inspire anew as truly original work can.

You have to be creative. It's the basics. You can't be Picasso unless you know how to draw a real face; then you can turn it upside down.