Fresh Interpretation Quotes

Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.

A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.

For my generation I must have the oracles of God in fresh terms.

An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.

Anyone who looked at something special, in a very original way, makes you see it that way forever.

Hollywood has to start finding more original stuff They've got to start by not depending on, 'What can we churn back out? How can we regurgitate this?' That's why I want to redo the feel of Transformers. That's why I wanted to start with a new cast. You want it to feel fresh, and you want to make it feel different than the other three.

Creativity has nothing to do with any activity in particular - with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with anything in particular. Anything can be creative - you bring that quality to the activity. Activity itself is neither creative nor uncreative. You can paint in an uncreative way. You can sing in an uncreative way. You can clean the floor in a creative way. You can cook in a creative way. Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach - how you look at things.

My writing is different. I think it's better. I think it's deeper. But, strangely enough, it covers a lot of the old ground. Maybe it says it in a more sophisticated way ... but I [have written] about basically the same subjects over the years.

I've always been open to the idea of an adaptation that does its own thing, that freely diverges from the original as long as it's true to the spirit.

I felt, if I'm going to take on some of the most overdone material, which is men and women and affairs and betrayal of friends, I had better have a new take on it. I think my films come from a desperation not to be boring.

I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a museum.

I personally love to see films not knowing very much about them. When you see it, it's like a flower opening up. I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed.

There's so much going on today. I continually hear, sometimes from artists, that everything's done. It's been done. I fail to see that.

The originality of a subject is in its treatment.

I'm trying to play tunes in a new way, using all the same scales, harmonies, structures, but twist everything a little bit so that it comes out sounding different.

The challenge for a good musician is to bring out compositions that seem fresh to the listener, even if the listener has heard the song or the composition before.

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

For me, the goal wasn't to turn the stand-up special on its head, but to do what I do specifically, and hopefully that reads as something new.