Quotes About Originality

You can't be an inventor trying to figure a better way of changing the spare tire. That's boring. We need someone who figures out how to hit a button and turn the entire car upside down.

I've never been stuck in the Upside Down, and no one else I know has, so it was kind of something new to just create.

I think that what makes you cool at the end of the day is letting go, not being superficial or uptight, and being different.

It's very important to not repeat yourself. After 'Delhi Belly,' I was offered 40 'Delhi Belly's and you can't do that! So 'Revolver Rani' is dark and gritty with action, 'Sooper Se Oopar' is a big commercial love story, 'Santa Banta' is a 'theth' Punjabi comedy, 'Golu Aur Pappu' is a kids' film and 'Amit Sahni Ki List' is an urban romcom.

English urban artists were very used to making secondhand American music, and I thought that was boring.

There are roles for all types of movies. I mean, you still want to watch the urban movies, and they need to be told. You still want to see something you haven't seen before.

I'm a producer first, and I know music, so I can jump on any song, whether it's pop or urban, without changing me. Whatever I do, I'm gonna make it classic.

If you choose to be fearless, then be fearlessly authentic not an imitation of someone you envy.

My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.

When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.

Your acting will not be good until it is only yours. That's true of music, acting, anything creative. You work until finally nobody is acting like you.

You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.

Your best work is your expression of yourself.

Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself.

I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards.

It is something that artists do all the time unconsciously, working in the style of someone they consider a great master. I just wanted to make that relationship literal.

Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.

Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

A good many people think as I do. If they like my work they are creative . . . or they are crazy.

Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist and people who appreciate truly beautiful and original creations in pottery are not frightened by innocent tomfoolery!

If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.

Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.

You belong in the most secret part of you. Don't worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world. If you fear, make it work for you—draw and paint your fear and anxiety.