Gene Fowler Quotes

Originality is really important.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

You always have to find some new ways. Old ways are too known.

I always make sure that every film of mine has some element of freshness to it.

Of course you can't do anything completely original.

Agents and publishers are always looking for something 'different,' a fresh viewpoint and a new voice, not just re-hashed versions of stuff that's gone before.

If it feels like you're aiming for something too familiar, and you're not having a primary new experience, then what's the point of making that movie? It's been done before, so try to find something new out of it.

Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.

To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.

I admire anyone who can come up with something original. But not originality alone, because there can be originality in stupidity, with no musical description of any emotion or any beauty the man has seen, or any kind of life he has lived.

I try to never repeat a character. I always try to find something new and fresh and interesting that inspires me.

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.

Don't 'write what you know.' Make up something new!

We need radical thinking, creative ideas, and imagination.

That's the tricky thing these days: being able to surprise people.

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

I've always avoided sequels, unless I felt there was something fresh.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

What I like on Kickstarter is when I see real innovation and I see people building something new. It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.