Quotes About Inspiration

You can't write much quality, original music on a concertina.

When you're making anime, if you get all of your inspiration from anime... it's going to lack originality and creativity, so I try to get my inspiration from different genres.

Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.

Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don't skimp on the words. Work on the words.

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

I respond to authenticity and originality, and I've been a fan of Don Winslow's ever since 'The Power Of The Dog.'

I feel like at this point in the world of just creating anything, you're not going to be able to create anything new. I think the closest thing you're going to get to originality is a mixture of influences.

Every time you work, it's a new film, and generally when you work with auteurs, people that write and direct their films, there's always an originality.

Looking back now, if I went to film school, it probably would have helped knowing what the best of the best of foreign films were, but that wasn't the case. In some ways, I think that led to my originality, because I hadn't seen anybody else.

People believe in my originality more than anything else.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'

I was very impressed with the scope and scale and impact that came from originally one person making 'Minecraft.' It's inspiring for me to think how our team can do more with less.

Originally I was not writing songs for myself.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.

Fernanda Andrade and Daphne Zuniga are two beautiful, inspiring women I met and became very close with while living in L.A. Daphne's father is from Central America, and Fernanda is originally from Brazil.

I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.

I met Magnus Lidehall about two years ago, and the beat that I originally wrote 'Younger' on was one of the first ones that he sent me. I must have been around 21 at that time, feeling a bit lazy and disappointed with myself and my life.

Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn't work very well.

Originally, 'The Monster' started out as this indie, Florence And The Machine, tribal-y, almost Spanish-esque dance record.

I originally went to school to be a filmmaker. And so it's a big part of how I think and how I write. And it inspires me a lot.

The drums were new to me; I was just playing what was in my head. I was a guitar player originally - so on the drums, I just played what was in my head rather than caring too much about what others were playing. And in that way, I came up with a simple but unique style.