Originality Quotes

“There is an original in every man.”

“The most important thing is to make a movie that is not a copy of something else. To be original.”

“This is a love story that feels as if it were made by people who'd never seen a love story, and were all the better for it.”

“We do not wish to copy nature. We do not want to reproduce, we want to produce. We want to produce as a plant produces a fruit, and not reproduce.”

“Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.”

“What is the point of going abroad if you are just another tourist?”

“The purpose of a critic is to be a voice, not an echo.”

“I'm not interested in making a replica of a story.”

“Everything is in books. Life is a commentary on something already written. Originality is impossible.”

“I struck a new note.”

“Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone.”

“I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.”

“Todo lo que no es tradición, es plagio.”

“You can't do anything to be original. It's not possible. But what you can do is be honest.”

“Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance.”

“The last thing I want to do is create a new punk rock cliché.”

“It's not about being the best, it's about being the first to do it.”

“It is better to fail with your own ideas than to succeed with someone else's.”

“It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.”

“The original is unfaithful to the translation.”