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"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."
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"Don't imitate. Be original."
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"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."
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"Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin."
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"Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar."
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"No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity."
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"Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague."
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"Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing."
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"When I was coming up, we weren't trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our thing. The only thing we were really trying to do was to be recognized for our originality."
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"Admirations are never paid in any way, try to make yourself of what you admire, and it will pay you with originality."
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"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!"
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"I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat."
Entertainment
"I'm a lifelong Disney nut."
Entertainment
"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."
Education
"Quality survives."
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"I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it."
People
"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
"Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film."
Technology
"A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up."
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"Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today."
Life
"Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process."
Money
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