Idea Appropriation Quotes

It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas.

I won't lie, I stole a lot of ideas from Giampaolo.

I think it's important to be aware of different people's styles and how you adapt or change or steal their ideas.

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

The people that are around me that give me ideas that I pass along or we try, the one thing I never do, I never give credit to anybody but myself. So I take all of the ideas. So everybody thinks that all of the ideas are mine.

I have years of saying ideas that are not listened to. Then, weeks after, of producers finding out that I was right when some other guy comes in and says it. Sometimes I just tell my idea to my editor or to some other guy with maybe gray hair to share it, and then it's brilliant!

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.

I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.

People will steal ideas and put them into songs.

I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.

When I have to promote things now, sometimes I realize that I had a movie in mind, but in the end, it's a vision of somebody else, so I have to promote their idea.