Trey Parker Quotes

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

Nobody really invents anything that hasn't been done before.

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

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

What gets me excited is the original principle.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

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

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before.

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's.

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

I've got nothing very original to say myself.

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.

Of course you can't do anything completely original.

Thankfully, as much as Hollywood is interested in brands, I think people are still looking for originality and freshness.

If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.

An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.