Quotes About Originality

Like the greats, you want to make your own story yourself, and not be a copy of another.

I like something with a really great storyline, characters, and concept. I like doing things that are new and cutting edge.

I find it quite boring when you're listening to radio, and it's the same kind of voice that's on every song on the radio. You can't really tell a lot about that singer as a storyteller and about the singer from what they're singing.

When I work on my own stuff - and I think this is true for anybody - but when you work on something that you just completely own, you are trying to stay as true to your own storytelling voice as you can.

Non-studio entities can experiment with storytelling that might be too niche... for a studio.

Independent filmmaking burns off a lot of storytelling fat.

I'm a lover of film and storytelling. I believe that I was put on earth to tell stories, and I'm not interested in telling the same stories over and over and over again.

In my planet, fashion, I'm the only straight man.

We live in world that wants to burnish the rough edges and straighten the crooked line, but conformity doesn't beget greatness.

Most songs on the radio are so straightforward and it just doesn't open up people's minds.

If you do something new, it will always look a little bit strange.

Beauty can come in strange forms.

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

It's intriguing to me, when I see a horror script, or something like that, that's actually original. I think that's why I love 'Stranger Things,' because it's not just horror, it's everything, and when they use horror it's right.

I felt like there was a certain standard that we held 'Strangers' to, so I think about that whenever I work on something.

I think the great sketch shows, like 'Python' and 'Mr. Show ' they didn't stick around for very long. There's something kind of cool about that.

Most of my ideas just come out funny.

Embrace the weird. Enjoy it because it's never going away.

From the beginning, Microsoft had proven the mantra that good artists copy but great artists steal. Its first operating system (MS-DOS) was actually a clone of CP/M, another operating system.* Microsoft Windows was a rip-off of the Apple Macintosh operating system; Microsoft Word and Excel were copies of Wordperfect and Lotus 1-2-3, respectively.

Creativity is an infinite resource. The more you spend,the more you have.

Different is better when it is more effective or more fun.

The fishing is best where the fewest go,

I've realized that instead of following the trends, you want to identify the trends but not follow them. It's good to recognize trends, but if you follow them, you get sucked into them, and then you also fall with the trend.

Borrow liberally, combine uniquely, and create your own bespoke blueprint.