Nic Pizzolatto Quotes

Some of the projects we've proposed over the years have been refused. But we never do other people's ideas; our ideas come out of our two hearts and our two heads.

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

I don't want to get myself in trouble - and I don't think I'm super important or anything - but I think it's so funny that when you look at the business and the way that people make decisions in their lives, whether they're in art or music or they're in industry, they forget that being unique is the answer.

I remember making 'Mr. Show,' thinking, 'Man this stuff is really funny to me.' I don't know if anyone else will love it, but I know I'm going to still watch it in 15 years if I'm still alive and laugh really hard. Even though we had very high standards, we were trying to excite and please ourselves.

I always took a great deal of pride in being original.

Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

I've never really tried to copy anyone; I like to have my own style.

No man was ever great by imitation.

I always try to be a trend setter. That's what I always tell young people when I'm giving them advice. To go with their heart and don't follow the trends.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.

Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.

Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

If you copy then it is not self-expression.

I'm not a manufactured artist. Nobody taught me how to be a proper artist.

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

I'm better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created.

I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice.

I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.