David Copperfield Quotes

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.

A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.

As a songwriter there's nothing more exciting than the unknown, the new and different.

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.

My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.'

I'm an artist, and I like the risk - I'm not in it for the sure things.

Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And that's the excitement of it.

Part of the excitement of doing independent film is the complete unknown of what lies in store for the film's future.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

I never liked to copy things that are out there. I always like to come up with something new, something different.

If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to.

You never know what an artist is going to create next.

I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't know if it's any good. I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line.

The new idea for me now is creativity. I like to express myself.

What I like is finding new angles on genres.

I love fresh ideas and want to do films which offer something new.

I don't want to be trending. Instead of pursuing ideas of being more radio-friendly and... commercial, I want to go harder at being more creative.

The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

My artistic approach is that you're supposed to be a little baffled.

All of my films have been very hard to understand at the script stage because they're very different. At the time I did them they were not conventional. The executives could only think in terms of what they'd already seen. It's hard for them to think in terms of what has never been done before.

If a piece of genius comes, it comes, and it if doesn't, it doesn't.

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

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