J. Michael Straczynski Quotes

There is no well-trodden route to where I am, no formula to replicate.

Each individual's way is going to be different. Never follow anybody. That is the greatest calamity that can happen to a man. Once you start following somebody else, you become a carbon copy. You become an imitation.

People say 'follow in the footsteps' but I always find that a strange expression because what you want to do is forge your own path, so to speak.

If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way.

I'm allergic to doing the obvious thing.

I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby.

I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.

I quickly realized I had to have my own style and strategy and find my own way.

I like being unconventional.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

I never wanted to be like anyone growing up. It's always been about the enjoyment, and I've just never wanted to imitate anyone.

It's interesting to be at once an insider and outsider. It's a way of learning how to find your way freely without the need of conforming or belonging.

I don't want to follow in anyone's footsteps. I want to follow my own path and do something unique.

I always wanted to beat my own path.

Question everything. Don't try to emulate someone else's path. Look at what you have, the tools you have, the place you're in; know the rules, and break them.

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.

Follow no path. Make your own.

The things to do are: the things that need doing: that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. Then you will conceive your own way of doing that which needs to be done - that no one else has told you to do or how to do it. This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.

Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.

Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps.

When I said, "I am my mother, but I'm not," I was saying my path would be my own.

I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.