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"I give no sources, because it is indifferent to mewhether what I have thought has already beenthought before me by another."
"No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original."
"None of my art is based on how others think i should have done it."
"People who copy you will always be one step behind."
"Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin."
"Everyone is looking for the sure thing. They are looking to hedge their bet. They think the way to do that is to go with a proven quantity, a remake of something you have already seen. That is their mindset."
"Nature they say doth dote And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan Repeating us by rote."
"She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before."
"When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make people love you in a way you did not expect."
Explore more quotes by Leonard Maltin
"Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were."
"If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility."
"I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it."
"I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge."
"Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them."
"Everyone is looking for the sure thing. They are looking to hedge their bet. They think the way to do that is to go with a proven quantity, a remake of something you have already seen. That is their mindset."
"I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries."
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