Kenneth Lonergan Quotes

I've always had a love for making things my own.

When you come into a pre-existing situation, you gotta have your own thing going. You gotta be really strong about it, and you gotta look at the older material in an aggressive way - 'I'm gonna make this mine somehow.' You need to put your imprint on the situation that you're in.

My attitude with covers is, make it your own or else leave it alone.

I love finding ways to make familiar characters into someone unique.

In my mind, I'm no longer daunted by the idea of a remake. In fact, I now look at it as a genre unto itself - so long as you make it your own.

I didn't look at the previous 'A Wrinkle in Time' movie. I wrote ideas down from the book, but I didn't really want to copy that Meg. We're the same, but we're different at the same time. I wanted to make myself Meg. I didn't want to use somebody else or use a reference.

I feel like fashion is about being innovative and being able to turn something into something else, making it cool, and making it your own.

I made a statement all my own.

There's no right way or wrong way to work. There's only your way.

Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.

I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.

But when you're beginning, you should try to focus on something you love and your own way of doing things.

You don't need personal fabrication in the home to buy what you can buy because you can buy it. You need it for what makes you unique, just like personalization.

As far back as I can remember, I had an interest in fashion. I used to go to sleepaway camp, and they'd provide a list of things that you had to bring, and I always wanted to be a bit more creative than the list allowed. Like, if they required chinos, I wanted to hand-paint them.

It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.

Whatever may be thought of my art, it is my own; and I would rather possess a freehold, though but a cottage, than live in a palace belonging to another.

What eventually you find in comics is the only thing unique you can bring to a character who's been around for 80 years is yourself.

I've noticed that wherever I've lived, I've either painted murals or done something sort of ridiculously over the top to make a space my own.

You custom make your own car, ain't nobody else driving that.

I'm not intimidated by embracing a familiar form and what's familiar about it and making it my own. It is, I think, one of my gifts.

I like to paint my own helmets. I design my own suit and boots, I like being unique in that way.

I don't have the patience to be a non-creator.

Make your own place. Make your own. The engine that allows you to make your own dynamic, your own universe. Why are you gravitating towards somebody else's universe?

Work is an opportunity to bring something forth-to create something, complete something, invent something authentic and original.

Take what's useful, leave out what's useless, and add a bit of yourself!