Carine Roitfeld Quotes

I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend.

I was so passionate about being in the magazine industry, even when I first started at 'Mirabella.'

I actually don't know how magazines are produced, I'll be honest with you. I have no idea.

I think one of the best jobs in the universe must be being the editor of 'The New Yorker', but there are a number of magazines that I'd be excited to be the editor of. They would be 'Wired', 'The New Yorker' and probably, 'Vogue'.

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.

In advertising not to be different is virtually suicidal.

The fact must never be forgotten that no magazine publisher in the United States could give what it is giving to the reader each month if it were not for the revenue which the advertiser brings the magazine.

In Bollywood, people struggle because there is a new person joining every week, who joins an assembly line of people who are very replaceable. But if you are unique, you don't have to struggle that much.

You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.

You can't pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It's better to create a reaction than to create no reaction. That's dangerous.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.

Groups like The Mountain Brothers just have to keep on doing what they're doing - just make it dope and just make it different. And not try to compete with other people of color.

And to be different is great. You don't want to be the same.

We won't be different for different's sake. Different is easy... make it pink and fluffy! Better is harder. Making something different often has a marketing and corporate agenda.

You don't want to just do 'me too' companies that are copying what others are doing.

You can't put yourself into competition with a magazine like 'Vogue.' You have to create something new, something different.

The thing I'm most proud of about - not all of our movies, but a lot of our movies - is that you might love 'em, you might hate 'em, but most of the time, they're trying to be different or trying new things, which I think is really important.

There is something about the sameness people like. And what I've tried to do with all the zombie films is purposely make them different. That may be part of why it takes so long for people to see what it's intended to be.

You can't be different for different's sake, and this doesn't always work, but you have to separate yourself from the normal read. Of course, it has to be truthful. If it's not truthful, don't waste your time.

My mandate to myself since I've been involved in these movies was 'make every single movie different, so there's never 'X-Men' fatigue.'

If you can do something that's authentic to yourself, how you feel as a person, then it's gonna be different than everybody else because everybody's different.

The movies I do have to be different in some way. Nothing vanilla will do.

I just wanted to be different; I didn't wanna sound like anybody else.