Tony Scott Quotes

I steal from every movie ever made.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

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

I won't lie, I stole a lot of ideas from Giampaolo.

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

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

When you snatch little pieces of other people's lives and try to palm them off as your own, that's more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago.

There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.

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

Blake is damned good to steal from.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.

I do know there's a lot of music where Led Zeppelin has been leant on. We didn't do anything about it. And I wouldn't want to, either.

Everybody steals my lines.

Inspiration is one thing. Stealing is another.

You can't complain about everybody that steals your sound. You'll be fighting for years trying to figure out how to make people not steal it.

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

I've seen a lot of people stealing from what I do. Some people show love and say thank you and tell me how I was an inspired for them.

There's a lot of thievery involved in writing. You're breaking into other people's spaces and other people's stories.

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

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off

Sometimes a line enters your head, and you're so grateful for it. You go online to check to see if anyone wrote it before you. You must have stolen it.