Hugh Jackman Quotes

I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show I want to see or write a script I want to read, and that's really all I can offer - being authentic.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

There are so many funny people and so many talented people, but the one thing nobody else has is my take on the world. So, when I'm developing my show, that's going to be the focus.

I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative.

We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.

I think the most important thing for an artist is to stay true to who you are. I want to stay as authentic as possible, as that's how we're going with our team.

I don't want to be trending. Instead of pursuing ideas of being more radio-friendly and... commercial, I want to go harder at being more creative.

I felt, if I'm going to take on some of the most overdone material, which is men and women and affairs and betrayal of friends, I had better have a new take on it. I think my films come from a desperation not to be boring.

Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.

I wasn't intentionally trying to create my own path or be original, it was just I needed to say certain things and I needed to express myself, and that's how it came out.

Write it as it is, don't try to make it like this or that. You can't do it in anybody else's way-you will have to make a way of your own.

Write what makes you laugh not what you think will make someone else laugh.

Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle.

Don't impersonate. Innovate.

One must not imitate what one wants to create.

Just do something that makes you stand out. Even if not everyone likes it, just do it.

Bryan [Cranston] created something completely unique, that was earned by its authenticity. That's what gave us the license to push it a bit.

There's so many people out there who try to imitate what I do but I am the original.

A too-expected image (cliché) will never seem right, even if it is.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

It is not so hard to be original, what is hard, is to be original with continuity.

The words "genius" and "genuine" derive from the same root. The core of genius is authenticity.

You don't want it to be a replica or an imitation. You want to create something fresh, original, very unique.

When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness.

Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.