Quotes About Originality

If you are not frightened, you are not original.

I admired shows like 'Six Feet Under.' That was an amazing show. Never boring, always inventive, smart. Loved the characters. Completely original. Those are shows that I admire.

Ideas do not need to be esoteric to be original or exciting.

I've always felt that really good prequels should be original movies.

Duke Ellington always had a style: original, clean with interesting color combinations. He had an artist's eye.

Most of my favourite moments in film have been when I've had an opportunity to say something from scratch, something original, whether I jotted down a few lines or it came out in improvisation.

Most of my cliches aren't original.

If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.

I love to take something very commonplace and reuse it in an original way.

Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies, which I enjoy myself, but I wanted to be the kind of filmmaker who wrote original work, sort of like a novelist would who deals with who we are and our times or our relationships.

People make sequels a lot in Hollywood, and sometimes it feels like there's never an original thought.

Bjork is a very original, interesting person. I like her very much.

I've got nothing very original to say myself.

It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.

There are seven notes - Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni no one is original in the world. We have to play around the notes and make our own stuff.

If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it.

There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.

I've always been a good imitator. I love music. But I'm just not that original.

I'll think of the idea and then I'll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which is the original thing which I thought was funny.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.

I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation.

Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.