Renny Harlin Quotes

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

There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.

I'm thankful for weird people out there 'cause they're some of the most creative people.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.

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

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

I've never really tried to copy anyone; I like to have my own style.

No man was ever great by imitation.

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anybody else. You can be influenced by people. I was influenced by Steve Martin and Bob Newhart and Woody Allen, but I never tried to be someone else. I always tried to be myself. And the reason people are successful is they're unique.

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.

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

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.

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

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

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

I believe in tradition and innovation, authenticity and passion.

To form our taste, we must neither depreciate nor imitate, but we should understand and originate.

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

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

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