Douglas Carter Beane Quotes

You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.

She thought of how much people changed you. It was the opposite of what you always heard, that no one could change a person. It wasn't true. It was only through other people that one ever did change.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

If you look at the most meaningful science fiction, it didn't come from watching other films. We seem to be in a place now where filmmakers make films based on other films because that's where the stimuli and influence comes from.

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

I was never so directly inspired by fashion. It always came from somewhere else.

A little part of my life is built around ancient art.

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.

I borrow bits from everyone.

So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad.

It's intimidating any time to have a piece of art that someone else created, and that person says, 'Let's see what you created based on what I created.'

We are influenced by the ideas we hear and the people we meet.

Everything I do references something that influenced me.

I really pull from everyone. I'm absorbent.

I'm a dreamer. I watch people. You don't try to become them because you could never become any of those guys. But you hope that some of it, you know, comes off on you at some point in your show, some point in your writing, that it happens to you and this light just shines on you.

Wow, I wish I could have done something like that.” That’s the thing, with other filmmakers, if I like them I just feel admiration. And yes, I usually say, “I wish I could have been part of that creative process,” because the films I admire like that are so specific that I know the creative process is also so specific, it’s nothing you could just imitate.

Everybody is influenced by someone.

Our jobs as artists is to make sure our art tells a real story and let people see themselves in these characters. It's about having a conversation about being better people.

Anything I've not experienced I do not look to for a subject. I have to feel it.

My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.

Art is a delayed echo.

If my peers had a significant impact on my music, my music would probably be a lot more popular.

Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does.

It is poetry that changes everything.