Gary Jennings Quotes

Let's use that to make as interesting and different and unique a story as possible and not just stay with the same thing.' And this movie is certainly the embodiment of that.

I always make sure that every film of mine has some element of freshness to it.

I'm not the first guy to make a record or to make hip-hop, but I did it differently.

I don't want to come in and do something that's been done before. You know, for me, it's not that I wouldn't come in and do a sequel to something, but it's only if I can bring something new to the table and I'm not following an extremely strict path.

I always like to do something different in every song.

I can tell you that I like to take a character where everyone may have an idea of what it's supposed to look like and go in a completely different direction with it. I like to make it my own and make it very personal to me, which will end up probably looking completely different than someone else's take on it.

I dont ever want to do anything mediocre. I hear the music in the charts and I dont mean to be rude, but those people have no soul. Learning from music is like eating a meal - you have to pace yourself. You cant take everything from it all at once. I want to be different, definitely. Im not a one trick pony. Im at least a five-trick pony.

I never wanted the temptation to imitate or emulate something that had been done beforehand.

You can’t learn your craft by copying me or anyone else. I hope what I do can do is in some way inspire others but I would be appalled if I thought my work was being studied as ‘the right way to do the job’. My way is just one of an infinite number of ways to do the job.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

I try to never repeat a character. I always try to find something new and fresh and interesting that inspires me.

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

Everybody is completely different. I think there is no formula for filmmaking. Everybody finds their own way of doing things.

There's so much going on today. I continually hear, sometimes from artists, that everything's done. It's been done. I fail to see that.

When you make something that everyone likes, it's very easy to say, "Well, I'll just repeat that." Because that was easy. I have a formula. But creatively, it's not very interesting.

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.

You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

I like the inspiration of the first take.

Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.

Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.

Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.

If you're purely derivative in what you do, then you could very easily get lost along the way. But for me, I might want to even do something else for a while.

With every movie I do and every day I go to work, my goal is not just to reach for difference, but also figure out how to look at world and characters in a different way.

Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.

Can't reinvent the wheel. But you can put your own spin on it.