Quotes About Innovation

All my movies are copies of Hollywood, some of them pretty trashy copies. All filmmakers copy from Hollywood.

At the end of the day, you can't do a copy of somebody.

You have to try and make the role your own and not copy anyone else.

If you want to copy somebody, you're going to be second at best, and always a step behind.

We're not proud, we're not egotistical. If someone is doing something better than we are, let's copy and paste when we should and when we can.

I can understand when people copy people of the past and make the future their own.

I can't copy nature.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's.

If you have a business idea that's extremely easy to copy, that can often become something of a challenge or problem.

People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.

If your entire conception of what's possible in fantasy only comes from other fantasy books, you're going to go on to create a copy of a copy of a copy. There's nothing original there, nothing dynamic. Which is fine if that's your goal, but I've always wanted to do something no one else was doing before.

Beauty can grow as a whole, since you shouldn't copy other people.

In my films, they say the action sequences are very local and not international. But why should I copy from English films?

I'm forced away from what I would call my music. I can't do another thing like 'Maxinquaye.' But if people didn't go out and copy it, I might have done another three or four 'Maxinquayes.' Which is terrible.

You cannot just copy and paste Carlo Ancelotti. He's been coaching for 20 years now and I have never heard a player complaining about him.

It's okay to be inspired by somebody else, but don't copy somebody else.

Obviously, don't copy everything we do.

I think of what I do as copying nature's design process.

You don't want to just do 'me too' companies that are copying what others are doing.

I've learned that you can do something great, but you have to continue reinventing yourself as an artist. So by the time someone else is copying your style, you have something else to offer your audience.

I started off copying disks on my computer when I was eight or nine.

I'm trying to create architecture as landscape. But I'm not copying nature.

From what I understand about Shakespeare - which isn't a lot - there was no copyright law when he was writing. He sampled at will, and it wasn't seen as a bad thing.