Tom Hooper Quotes

You can't make experimental work by copying past work.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

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.

To create something you must be something.

Everybody struggles to come up with stuff that no one has ever seen before. It's a fine line between trying to get creative and doing something that's new, fresh and different - yet, for me, something that's based in reality that would actually work in these situations. These are the keys to great fight scenes and action sequences.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't run dry, I imagine this will be the case.

I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

I've got nothing very original to say myself.

Fiction lags after truth.

If it feels like we're re-creating something rather than creating something, we don't do it.

You can only really invent something if you connect yourself to the real world - whatever that means.

Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.

I was never interested in 'making up' games when I was little. I wanted to create something real.

I think when you're being creative, you still attach it to reality somehow.