Edith Head Quotes

Blake is damned good to steal from.

I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.

I rip off of every movie and TV show I've ever seen in my life.

Everybody steals my lines.

A lot of people accuse me of copying Courtney Love.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

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

When you snatch little pieces of other people's lives and try to palm them off as your own, that's more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago.

No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.

You're allowed to rip-off another score so close that it's ridiculous. In my opinion it's ridiculous, how closely one can just rip-off a score that happened a year or two earlier.

I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent.

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.

I hate it when people just downright copy. I hate it.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.

When it comes to other people's writing, my older influences are more powerful than more recent ones, partially because I'm now more worried that I'll suddenly accidentally steal something from another writer.

Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

People will steal ideas and put them into songs.

I won't lie, I stole a lot of ideas from Giampaolo.

Certainly, there are very few wholly original ideas in the world; there are usually people coming to the same conclusions or carrying out experiments, whether publicly or privately.

Inspiration is one thing. Stealing is another.