Originals Quotes - Page 30

• Sure, you could go out and make Jaws today. But all of the sequels to Jaws weren't good. They are all worthless. The Godfather II is the only sequel that I have ever seen that is as good as or better than the original.

  William Friedkin

  Today, Sequels, Worthless

  Source: www.movieweb.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I began as a dramatist in the theater, so I'm always thinking about how a story moves, what it looks like, how to engage the senses, how dialogue sounds, what feels authentic and sounds real, what's funny, how to build distinctive and original characters - all the aspects of playwriting, scene-building, the architecture of dramatizing.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Real, Moving, Character

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't know if there's a problem with original ideas... I think a healthy film industry should have a good supply of good, original writing.

  Colin Firth

  Writing, Thinking, Should Have

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• In regards to those other franchises that are being remade, we must take pains to mention that we're the only one where the original creators are actually making the movie. It's a special feel of quality, like a Good Housekeeping quality.

  David Kirschner

  Pain, Special, Quality

  Source: www.movieweb.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's really hard to find stuff that is original. You pick up scripts and in four pages you know where it's going and the same thing when you are sitting in a theatre, I just rejoice when something unfolds in a way that I'm not conducive.

  Susan Sarandon

  Theatre, Sitting, Four

  Source: www.movieweb.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The censors were great. There's always back and forth. But it's 'Hostel 2', it's not 'Happy Feet 2'. Everybody knows what Hostel is and people that are going to see it are going for more of what they loved in the original. No one is accidentally going to walk into it, no parent is accidentally going to take their child, and we're not pretending what it is in the advertising. We're saying it's very violent, it's very scary and a continuation of the first one.

  Eli Roth

  Children, Feet, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• [Writing something original from scratch], the initial process is way different. But once it exists and you start to actually work on making it real, then the approach is kind of the same, for me anyways.

  Zack Snyder

  Real, Writing, Different

  Source: ca.complex.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think there's great value to the Associated Press and to Reuters, but if you wanted to generate original content, maybe written by local writers, it just takes a little bit of openness to open your pages up to a wider freelance writer pool, and then you might find new voices and a wider array of voices, and definitely more original content that can't be found anywhere else.

  Dave Eggers

  Thinking, Voice, Littles

  Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. January 1, 2010.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• What does surprise me, though, is the amount of attention this band [Guns'n'Roses] has garnered 11 years after the original lineup broke up. That's an interesting phenomenon. It was even interesting back in the day. I mean, [we were] this glorified garage band. It was a great band, but it was not the kind of band you expected to become what it has.

  Slash

  Mean, Gun, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• For me, the original Guns N' Roses is the embodiment of a certain kind of chemistry that really couldn't be duplicated.

  Slash

  Gun, Rose, Embodiment

  Interview with Trevor Kelley, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2007.

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• There have been screenwriters who I'm sure would gladly kill me, because I've been very fast and loose with their work, because I felt like it wasn't up to my high standards. I would push and pull it on set, and make changes all the time. But then when you're working with an original screenplay, my theater instincts kick in, and I suddenly become very keeper-of-the-words.

  Sam Mendes

  High Standards, Making Changes, Instinct

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 2, 2009.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I like the fact that people come together who have shared values, but I don't believe that a man died 2,000 years ago and was crucified on a cross to save me from my original sin.

  Steve Coogan

  Believe, Men, Years

  "Steve Coogan Doesn't Believe in Fairies". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm very keen. Adaptations of other people's work, too. I got fascinated by the adaptation process, so I think that'd be a really interesting task. I would happily write original screenplays as well. I think it's become one of my favorite genres.

  Emma Donoghue

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "Room" Author/Screenwriter Emma Donoghue on Her "Deeply Feminist" Film and Industry Sexism". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. October 16, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Imitation always stinks. When I take photos, I don't go back. I don't look at the past. I'm always original.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Past, Looks, Imitation

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Communism wasn't a word that I thought of when I went to Cuba. The original Fidelistas were not Communists. They were graduate students at the university and law students. After the Fidelistas took over, they went to Washington and tried to get support from the U.S. government, which turned them down. They were in a desperate political and economic situation, so they took the offer from the Soviet Union. Communism was a matter of necessity.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Government, Law, Political

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 1, 2012.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• For someone who is starting out on developing their critical skills, just being aware of its existence is great: it can make the difference between trying to write a story around a cliche or an original idea, and better still, studying it can eventually clue you in on how to breathe new life into tired tropes.

  Charles Stross

  Writing, Tired, Skills

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Financing films that are demanding is a task, in itself. Because people are so afraid of taking any kind of chance, because they're afraid the audience isn't going to respond. But the audience is so hungry for anything that's a bit original, personal, or different.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  People, Different, Tasks

  Source: www.indiewire.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.

  Abigail Disney

  Thinking, Ideas, Waiting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• You'll always love the person, if you're sensible. But you get a lot of people, especially in divorces and separations, doing a lot of damage to themselves, because they can't figure out that they actually still love this person, but not in their original way.

  David Whyte

  Divorce, People, Way

  "Courageous Conversations: An Interview with David Whyte". Interview with Kim Rosen, spiritualityhealth.com. December 8, 2014.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Original visions are often wrong. Companies have to morph as they learn what customers don't want.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Vision, Want, Company

  "Interview with Guy Kawasaki | Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, Author (Enchantment)". Interview with Sameer Kamat, www.mbacrystalball.com. June 26, 2011.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Though I am never exactly "blocked" I do have difficult periods. I am led by a fascination with material - the challenge of presenting it in an original and engaging way. I have no problem imagining stories, characters, distinctive settings & themes - but the difficulty is choosing a voice & a language in which to present it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Character, Voice, Challenges

  "A Portrait of the Writer". Interview with Mia Funk, tinhouse.com. February 10, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Originality is also very important to a writer. And all of the writers I've mentioned, of course, are original, but it's important to me that every book that I do be really a completely fresh and new look at the world. And of course, that makes it frightening to start a new book because you can't really depend upon what you've done with previous books.

  Alan Lightman

  Book, Important, Looks

  "Alan Lightman Interview". Interview with Alex Burack, www.literarytraveler.com. May 4, 2007.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• [America] doesn't have an emphasis anymore on original discovery. Everything is based on teaching and learning for tests. Memorizing what you are taught, not on actually making discoveries. People are being treated as herded cattle instead of as human beings capable of making original, creative discoveries.

  Kesha Rogers

  Teaching, Discovery, America

  4 Copy quote

• There is good and bad in all of us and the Church uses the idea of original sin to control us by saying that, if we do not obey the bishops, we will rot in Hell.

  Tony Benn

  Ideas, Church, Bishops

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Because clearly the most amazing thing had happened: by some chance - no, the lover does not believe in chance, but destiny - destiny had arranged it so that the man and woman who had made the original whole, then somehow divided and separated by an angry God, had met up again, and now must reform the rightful, righteous whole. At once!

  Fay Weldon

  Believe, Destiny, Men

  4 Copy quote