top of page
.png){kind=small}
"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."
Standard
Customized
More
"When ill luck besets us to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You walk like others? You talk like others? You think like others? Then the world doesn't need you because others are already abundant in the world! Be original!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Ours was not going to be a clone of the usual expeditions, oozing with sleekness. It was clear from the start that oddity was our advantage."
Author Name
Personal Development
"No man was ever great by imitation."
Author Name
Personal Development
"But you possess one quality that no one else does. Oh? Your identity. Your history, deeds and situation. Use those to shape your creation and you will produce something unique. Whatever you make, base it upon that which is most important to you. Only then will it have depth and meaning, and only then will it resonate with others."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Originals cost more than imitations."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Don't imitate. Be original."
Author Name
Personal Development
"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."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd."
Creativity
"When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment."
Thought
"A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up."
Christian
"While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage. And he became a household face."
Leadership
"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."
Fun
"Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture."
Beauty
"Quality survives."
Quality
"Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today."
Life
"I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it."
People
"If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility."
People
bottom of page