Michael Avenatti Quotes

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

I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.

People will steal ideas and put them into songs.

I do not care to put out any ideas for pictures. They are too valuable and can be appropriated by any art student, defrauding me out of a possible picture.

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

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

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

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

The comics I hate are thieves. Nothing's more disgusting than a guy who steals another person's ideas and tries to claim them as his own.

If somebody had started on a remake of French Kiss before I announced my own film, I would have dropped my subject. If someone else starts after me, what am I to do?

Ray is very secretive about his ideas - why not, the times that the Kinks have been ripped off, especially in the early years, it makes you a little bit cautious about telling anybody what you're doing. And that's understandable.

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

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

The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.

Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

I wasn't political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been pirated and my intellectual property rights stolen, but my work has been misrepresented.

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.

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

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it..

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.

I do think that copyrights and intellectual property are important - it's important to be able to keep people from making verbatim copies of a particular creation that could somehow hurt the creator.

You cannot own a symphony or a novel in the way you can own a Damien Hirst. As a result there are far fewer fake symphonies or fake novels than there are fake works of visual art.

I don't want nobody to ever say, 'I coulda done that beat' or 'I know where you got that from.'

Never steal jokes.