Errol Morris Quotes

This is my real concern: to give each film a unique individuality.

I think as an artist that's the best thing you can have - a personal stamp on something.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

All movies are different, all movies have their own life.

I don't think I'm very much like anyone else, really. I'm sure there are aspects of other actors that I share, but I don't see anybody else and go, "Damn, they stole my thing." I'm me, and I like that there are people who have an appreciation for that.

I think that, as artists, all we can do is be who we are. I think that if we do that, then we're automatically not anyone else.

My 'Slide Some Oil' ain't gon' be Nipsey Russell's 'Slide Some Oil.' Elijah Kelley's 'You Can't Win' ain't gon' be Michael Jackson's 'You Can't Win.'

I have an original voice. It may not be the best voice, but it's distinct, and I think that's what has carried me through the years.

I am not like any other singer in America - I am a new creation.

It's very hard for me to place myself alongside another artist. Everyone has something unique to express.

You have to be, become, the musician who can't be replaced.

From the way I sing to what I write about to what I put out with my stamp separates me from everyone else.

I'm a little bit of everything. That's what makes Nicky Jam so different from everybody else.

I'm not like any other artist, point blank.

My goal is to not fit in. My worst nightmare is being the baby version of another artist.

I made that a point when I was creating my sound from the beginning, I didn't want to sound like anybody. Once I kind of found my own sound, I mastered it.

I know that me personally I'm different than anyone else, just like our mothers all tell us we're all very special and unique and we are, and I think if an actor can stick to trying to make the character resemble something from their own spirit it will automatically be unique.

There are obviously so many artists that are very inspiring, but I can't say that they like - that I have someone in mind that is like a creative direction of where I want to go as an artist. I think I'm just doing my own thing.

I don't want to direct a movie as good as Antonioni, or Kubrick, or Polanski, or whoever. I want it to be my own. I think I've got the seed of it and, what's more, that I can make movies that are different and informed by my taste.

And she did not want him to think her quite mad, only a little unique, only containing within her just that measure of the unexpected sufficient to make her irreplaceable.

Do you think its possible to live without wanting to put your name on your paintings? To belong to a group so securely you don't need to rise above it?

Being different and thinking different makes a person unforgettable. History does not remember the forgettable. It honors the unique minority the majority cannot forget

Everything I do, I do it because it's me. At the end of the day, I only know how to be me. Everything is gonna be authentic, so I think, when it comes down to sayin' certain stuff in lyrics, or whatever the case may be, it's just me bein' me and me bein' honest.

Nobody can imitate me. You can always see impersonations of Katharine Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. But not me. Because I've always drawn on myself only.