Robert Lopez Quotes

I definitely have some ideas that perhaps people haven't seen before, so I look forward to putting those on film.

A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

I have to believe everything I write is brand new and I'm writing in this way about these people in a completely new situation for the very first time.

In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.'

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.

I'm a more skilled writer now, but after 23 books it's harder to be fresh and that's really important to me. I don't want to write the same thing over and over again.

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

I've never done a sequel - so far, there have been too many new stories and characters calling my name.

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part.

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.

We all tell our own stories the way we live our lives. My story is: Life is too short to not believe in fresh voices. I don't have Hollywood stars. I have great American artists.

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

If they haven't heard it before it's original.

A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

Originality is, for me, the most important quality in a script.

I try to make everything I write a little bit different. Those songs that go, 'I love you so much and you love me,' they're boring. If I'm going to write a love song, it's going to be a little bit tortuous.

The midwest is great because it hasn't been entirely claimed. There's more room to write about it; it's harder to write about New York, because even if you've never been there, you think you know what it's like. To do it in any sort of fresh way is trickier.

Agents and publishers are always looking for something 'different,' a fresh viewpoint and a new voice, not just re-hashed versions of stuff that's gone before.

I think it's been obvious from the beginning that my projects are not going to be something that people already have in mind. You can't be thinking about such things when you create something.

If you see in all my books, I have two key intentions. One is obviously to entertain and make sure that the reader has a good reading experience. I also try to write on subjects that nobody has dealt with before to make my works different from other page turners.