Chris Roberson Quotes

Always my collections are made of different influences.

Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.

I think it's hard to put a finger on my music. My music has always been an amalgamation of everything I listen to, which includes everything and anything under the sun. Hip-hop to country to R&B to pop, all the things I'm inspired by find a way into what I do.

How many times can you put together 26 different stories without running out?

I was doing an interview with a curator, and he asked me to sum up art in one word. Before he even finished asking the question, I said, 'Impurity.' Because that's it.

When I was a kid, I saw 'Heavy Metal' the movie, and my mind was blown. I loved the idea that you could have all these different stories in different styles that are linked together.

When material comes to me, I don't care where it's coming from. Japan, Singapore, China, Africa... it could be from everywhere. The material should excite me. It's not important where it's coming from.

Inspiration takes many forms, but it's rarely pure.

I didn't want to write the same book over and over.

I try to find influences in not only wrestling but all facets of entertainment.

I never work with one inspiration in mind. I like to take things from everywhere and piece it together. It's never a theme or a trick.

I love stories and I don't like to repeat myself. And I look for new stuff, and as they say it gets harder.

It's best to incorporate a broadly eclectic point of view, and let whatever moves you be your inspiration.

I'm really interested in bands that sound nothing like anything I do or can do. That's what interests me.

Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.

It's important not to base your ambition on anybody else's history, but to figure out how best to use your own particular personality and understanding of yourself to help tell other people's stories.

Rampant eclecticism is my middle name.

The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.

Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.

Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

Nature's imagination far surpasses our own.

What I think is so great about interviews, is when people cite inspirations.

The difficulty in the way of writing a children's play is that Barrie was born too soon. Many people must have felt the same about Shakespeare. We who came later have no chance. What fun to have been Adam, and to have had the whole world of plots and jokes and stories at one's disposal.

I'm always cribbing from real life. I'm not a very creative filmmaker.