William Hanna Quotes

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

Blake is damned good to steal from.

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.

Everyone steals from something or someone.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

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

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

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.

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

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

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

If you copy then it is not self-expression.

I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.

When it comes to other people's writing, my older influences are more powerful than more recent ones, partially because I'm now more worried that I'll suddenly accidentally steal something from another writer.

You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.