Justin Chon Quotes

It's a copycat league.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

The politician who tries to ape his rival or predecessor is, almost by definition, a second rater, inferior to the real thing.

When anyone pitches me - and I've heard it a million times: 'It's the black Seinfeld,' or, 'It's the new version of something that's already been successful' - I immediately shut it off. I won't ever entertain doing 'the new version of such-and-such.'

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you're writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn't work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.

I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

The worst art is when it's really convenient and comfy.

The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.

Movies, like old-school TV, are cheesy, corny. Movies are not exciting anymore. They're not cutting edge.

With success always comes mimicry.

I hate anything that seems like something that has been done.

No one repeats a word I say without imitating my voice; it drives me out of my... mind.

Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that very glibness.

Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.

You've seen one gimmick, you've seen them all.

Commonplace people have an answer for everything and nothing ever surprises them. They try to look as though they knew what you were about to say better than you did yourself, and when it is their turn to speak, they repeat with great assurance something that they have heard other people say, as though it were their own invention.

I got a lot of motivation from my character of people-watching. And if they do something that annoys me, I steal it and do it because I know it annoys other people. If it annoys me, it's going to annoy you.

To me, relaxing doesn't mean that we play ding-dong songs and look at a wall of bamboo. It's just completely unoriginal.

You never think about someone dressing up as you for Halloween.

Sometimes it's flattering when people copy you, but sometimes it gets to a breaking point.

Describing yourself as edgy is one of the least edgy things a person can do.

I'm very easy to impersonate. From the look to the personality, I'm like, wow.