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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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"Nature they say doth dote And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan Repeating us by rote."
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"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."
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"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."
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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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"Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar."
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"Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing."
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"The most important trait of a writer is an authentic voice. Writers have to have faith in their own voice, and their own way of doing things. Originality is the gem that every writer possesses. Originality also brings on the most merciless attacks. The world resents originality in the beginning writer, and then rewards it abundantly once that writer has been successfully published. Cherish your own voice. Don't try to sound like anybody else. Sound like yourself and take the slings and arrows and keep going."
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"Originality is undetected plagiarism."
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"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality."
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"Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism."
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"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."
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"If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility."
People
"I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it."
People
"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."
Movies
"Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today."
Life
"Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them."
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"Timing in life is everything."
Life
"A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up."
Christian
"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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"I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat."
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