Quotes About Originality

My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.

It's important to have your own voice.

Well as I say, don't believe everything that you read and don't be afraid to think and it is alright to understand what has gone before but don't just rely on copying but develop your internal voice and your own internal means of interpreting.

You don't try to do anything that Morgan Freeman does. He was the voice of God in a movie. That's Morgan Freeman!

I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it.

And I think I have a distinct voice.

I'm drawn toward filmmakers who have a very distinctive voice. I really appreciate people who push themselves and, therefore, push the medium forward.

When I speak a serious subject in an informal and humorous way, it has bigger impact. So much so, when BBC made a small documentary, they first thought of having a voiceover for me. The producer liked my English so much, he said they were retaining my original voice.

When I do a voiceover now, there are always a few people I've borrowed bits off, whether it's their hats or facial hair, who'll say: 'That's so funny; it's obviously based on this guy.' You think, 'It ain't: it's you.' Actors never think characters are based on them.

I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.

I think original voices get noticed. But most importantly, I think you should have a story to tell.

Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.

For the theatrical experience to survive, spectacle films need to expand their definition of what they can be. They need to be unique and true voices of the filmmakers behind them. They can't just be copying what came before them.

It's extremely important, a cappella groups get so easily pigeonholed into essentially just being a cover band, and we want to be at the forefront to show it's its own art form and just a different way to have a band. Only we just use our voices.

The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.

Listeners want fresh voices.

Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.

It's incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking.

As filmmakers, we are interested in unique voices.

Finding new voices with fresh ideas is the hardest and most rewarding part of a television executive's job.

I think when we do our job right, our artists don't sound like anybody else. I have a real hard time with voices that sound like other big voices.

The thing that separates Sophie from the music I do for other people is that it's 100% written by me. In the past, I've written my songs and then asked friends if they could record the vocals. I didn't want to use my own voice, because other people have much better voices. I was hearing the music with a voice that I don't have.

Ben Wheatley continues to be one of the most original voices in contemporary film.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.