Quotes About Originality

The creative process is different from the traditional production and work-flow process. It is not so linear.

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else.

I've never been happy doing stock work; I've never been happy thinking that I haven't changed something.

I never chased after any particular school, never really had mentors; I really just did the work that was true to me.

Nobody's going to like my next movie because they liked Trainwreck [2015]. It has to work on its own, and that keeps it really scary.

If no ones doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.

Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.

I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.

Advice for young people who want to channel their personality into creative work - be authentic.

I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.

Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.

Goodness its the kind of work I come to the Fringe to see

I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.

My idea with my work is always to fashion something that's impossible to transpose into any other media.

If you do an original film and you want to cut a scene out you do it. But when you do a shot by shot remake you don't have that option and every scene has to work again.

The content could be done anyplace, but the real invention is the architecture. The architecture is the only work that really defines a new way of doing things. I think this point is fundamental.

That's what I think when people do their "best stuff" collection. When you start to think, "Oh, I will just present my 10 years of work," that's not a good sign.

I tell myself that, regardless of what source I draw on, I'm writing a new work for reasons peculiar to me and not an adaptation, and so feel, in the end, justified in singing it my way.

Original work has no floor and no ceiling. You can reach essentially zero readers or millions.

Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.

Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.

Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.