Quotes About Innovation

IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.

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'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.

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

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

If they haven't heard it before it's original.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can.

I do worry that it's impossible to write something original, that there's nothing that a human hasn't already thought of. But I can put it out of my mind and get on with what I'm doing.

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.

I'm trying to focus on original material. That is what I've had my luck with.

Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.

My fans are like no other. Completely original people.

I was at Disney for about four years, so I made good friends there. It was a time of not a lot of creativity. It was the end of the first great era, with a few of the original animators. They called them the Nine Old Men. I learned a lot from them, but it wasn't going to be a future home for me.

My advice to authors would be to try to do something original rather than to try to anticipate what the market is looking for.

Knowing what you're up against is part of the strength of writing something that is even, I guess, considered halfway original, knowing what's out there to begin with.

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

The original idea for Justin.tv was a terrible idea. So if something like that can eventually become successful, then anyone can be successful.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

Using the computer to record was a cool way to keep all the original ideas intact.

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

If someone wants to make very, very original music that no one has ever heard before, you shouldn't know anything about music. It just narrows you down, you know?