Danny DeVito Quotes

You can only write your own vision.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

Big picture, it's amazing to create characters and see them brought to life in the art. And to love that art. But I especially enjoy writing a character with heightened powers that aren't especially useful to him.

I like to tell my own story using my personality and my insight, the way I see things.

There are stories I wanted to tell, and they are not defined by what I look like.

People might look at you a bit funny, but it's okay. Artists are allowed to be a bit different.

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace and love about my work.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

In preschool, I would plan out my show-and-tell every week to be funny and exciting. Then in first grade I wrote a play, and my classmates and I performed it as a puppet show.

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.

I just do what I think is funny and what's exciting to me.

I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.

I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work.

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.