Ajay Devgn Quotes

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

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

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

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

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

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

Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.

If I spend time conceiving and making a piece of art, and somebody else sees that it has market value and replicates it in order to steal part of my market, then that's not cool.

In L.A., anytime a show is a success, people come out of the woodwork claiming they had the idea first.

First of all, I appropriate photographs.In presenting the Richard Prince photograph I tried to be as neutral as I could be. I put down the fact of it. I wanted it to be the same thing he wanted it to be, an open ended invitation to think about authorship, and who owns a created work. So I pair it with my appropriated picture.

A director is a very selfish person. For him, his film is like his baby.

When I hear the news that the pirated version of my film is doing rounds, I cannot keep quiet.

The trouble is, the older you get, it's hard to find time to make a film: it's a year to write, a year to get money, a year to make it, a year to edit. It's four years of your life.

If you make modern rap music, how do you write without ripping off anyone else? It's just about having a distinct voice in your songs.

You don't necessarily have to write a song to make it your own. After all, Elvis never wrote a song in his life.

It's one of the things I love about making films: the places I've got to travel that I would never have gone to before.

Plagiarism is basic to all culture

I've been acting for many years now, and I find there's nothing I enjoy more than making films with my friends and people I like, who also are the funniest people around.

The only thing I really wanted was the freedom to be able to get what I want on film. I’ve dealt with the MPAA since 1973, so I know how to renegotiate and rework.

The process of making films is so technically demanding that it's a distraction. You don't spend your time thinking about the philosophical content, which is often very depressing.

Hollywood. It lacks originality. Remake sucks.' But I had to look deeper into it from my own perspective. We are not trying to compete with the original at all and that's what allowed me to pull the trigger without any hesitancy.

I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.

Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.

Some films go so well, and some films are disappointing. It's the beauty of the craft. You get it right, and you get it wrong. You have tremendous highs, and you have tremendous lows. Hopefully, you learn from them and become better, as you go along.

I hate it when people just downright copy. I hate it.