Shraddha Srinath Quotes

Even with revivals, I don't really pay attention to previous incarnations. I always just go with the script and with the director and am willing to treat it as brand new.

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

My art and my creativities were totally something that was of my own heart and mind. I could never let anybody dictate to me what I should write and how I would write it.

I want to be my own artist and reflect my creativity.. I don't want to be turned into a pop princess; that's not who I am.

When directors tell me they want a song like one, I tell them no song should be like another. I don't listen to directors.

My works have always been unjoined. People were always making variations of my works, and I just said, "I don't want to know." You can't put limits on those pieces. You can't be there all of the time when they're installed.

I never tried to sing like anybody else, fortunately I didn't sound like anybody else. It just happened.

When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.

What I love about Kanye is that he doesn't fit the mould either. He does what he feels.

I think that, as artists, all we can do is be who we are. I think that if we do that, then we're automatically not anyone else.

I think plays deserve other interpretations. They should live on, and other people should should take their hand at them. I'm very supportive of that.

My early experiences in animation taught me that following someone else is not a great idea.

I tend not to go look at movies before I make a movie. I'd rather not be specifically influenced.

I know, people have had different things to say about Marvel, about how creatively free they are or not free they are, but for me, the rule has always just been stay as good as I can possibly be, and stay one step ahead of the curve, and stay unique, and stay myself. And they seem to like that.

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

I would never want to take on a sequel of someone else's stuff unless I was totally reinventing it.

All artists are equal when they are themselves.

Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.

The moment you start thinking about what other people and other artists think, you're going to start writing like other people.

It's just I do things differently and I want people to appreciate music for what it is, and not because of a story.

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 think it's been obvious from the beginning that my projects are not going to be something that people already have in mind. You can't be thinking about such things when you create something.

Being in somebody else's thing and saying their words and not having any right to change it - I don't know how I'd deal with that. I'd like to think I could do it, but I just know I've got a dead particular taste.

I think rappers spend a lot of time trying to figure out what is new. 'How can I say this in a way that no one has ever said it before?'

I'm not interested in replicating 'Hedwig' like a virus.