Danny Elfman Quotes

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.

They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.

A lot of people accuse me of copying Courtney Love.

No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.

Blake is damned good to steal from.

Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.

Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.

When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that's plagiarism, that's taking other people's music.

I rip off of every movie and TV show I've ever seen in my life.

In 2013, when it turned out that the plot of LaBeouf's short film 'HowardCantour.com' (2012) had been purloined from graphic novelist Daniel Clowes's 2007 comic 'Justin M. Damiano', the actor-director responded with a series of tweet apologies that also appeared to be shoplifted.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent.

Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not.

I think a very clear cut example of - dare I say - plagiarism is the Sam Smith-Tom Petty situation, where you have a song that is flagrantly... it is the hook from one song being used for another song. To me, that was a very obvious example of plagiarism. If somebody had done that to me, I would probably take a similar course of action.

People will steal ideas and put them into songs.

Everybody steals my lines.

In many senses, creativity and 'plagiarism' are nearly indivisible.

I hate it when people just downright copy. I hate it.

When you snatch little pieces of other people's lives and try to palm them off as your own, that's more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.

I don't steal stories. If I'm a plagiarist, so is Hitchcock. And Tolkien. And Shakespeare.