Justin Theroux Quotes

Everyone steals from something or someone.

I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent.

In many senses, creativity and 'plagiarism' are nearly indivisible.

I think anything created today can be said to be a ripoff. It's hard to find anything original any more.

If Shakespeare had lived in our age, he would have been sued for writing Romeo And Juliet, because as everybody knows, he plagiarized that from an Italian play.

Someone very smart once said to me, "Steal, don't borrow." So if there's anything good in anything anyone else does, it's fair game. I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.

Sometimes a line enters your head, and you're so grateful for it. You go online to check to see if anyone wrote it before you. You must have stolen it.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Blake is damned good to steal from.

I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine. I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary fantasy, my mind begins to take over.

I rip off of every movie and TV show I've ever seen in my life.

I won't lie, I stole a lot of ideas from Giampaolo.

Sometimes, I think filmmakers grab too much from real life.

I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.

You have to be careful when it comes to copyrights, whether just sounding like or feeling like something is enough to say you violated their copyrights because there's a lot of music out there, and there's a lot of things that feel like other things that are influenced by other things. And you don't want to get into that thing where all of us are suing each other all the time because this and that song feels like another song.

There's a lot of thievery involved in writing. You're breaking into other people's spaces and other people's stories.

If you imitate someone, you owe them a royalty check. If you emulate them, you don't. There's a big difference. Check your lawyer.

Inspiration and stealing are two completely different things. If somebody wants to make a song like "Stairway to Heaven" and writes a song on acoustic guitar, Led Zeppelin does not own every song that's on acoustic guitar for the rest of time.

I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.