Peter Jackson Quotes

Be original; don't be scared of being bold!

I don't want to get myself in trouble - and I don't think I'm super important or anything - but I think it's so funny that when you look at the business and the way that people make decisions in their lives, whether they're in art or music or they're in industry, they forget that being unique is the answer.

I don't think I've ever made a claim to startling originality.

Be as unique and original as possible.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

I've seen stand up comedy, and after a while you start to notice that a lot of people are doing things that are like a lot of other people. There can be a bit of a herd mentality, and that's obviously less interesting because there's less going on. I'm just being totally frank with you.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

I don't think anyone really says anything new.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

I hate anything that seems like something that has been done.

We live in world that wants to burnish the rough edges and straighten the crooked line, but conformity doesn't beget greatness.

You have to be as original as possible. It's a tough thing to come up with something totally original.

I think people are afraid to be original.

I want to work with anybody original.

The one lesson I've learned from technology and food is the only time you know you're doing the wrong thing is when you're doing what everyone else is doing.

This was my motto: 'Don't come up with routine stuff.'

Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.

Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

The world is forever babbling of originality; but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world; the first man himself--who according to the Rabbins was also the first author--not being an original; the only original author being God.

If you're doing what everyone else is doing, you're doing it wrong.

It's hard work to find your own voice and not to copycat anything.

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.