Top 40 Original Idea Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Original Idea Quotes from famous people such as Eline Powell, Adam Granduciel, Jeremy Thomas, Michael Beck, Mario Testino, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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I was actually quite surprised how many more mythologies there are about mermaids than the ones our society knows. I was so pleasantly surprised for ‘Siren’ to add quite an original idea to that: One that is a predator. One that is very intelligent but still has to survive in the ocean with all of its challenges.
Eline Powell
I work off of my early demos. I’ll keep adding on top of that, but I usually gravitate towards whatever that original idea was.
Adam Granduciel
I don’t think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.
Jeremy Thomas
Writing is much more satisfying on a certain level than acting ever was. Because you’re not interpreting someone else’s original idea, you can come up with your own.
Michael Beck
My original idea was to photograph Princess Diana in her tiara. But then I thought, am I interested in seeing another picture of her as a royal person, or would I rather see what she is actually about? And that’s why I decided to do her without jewels, without shoes, without trimmings.
Mario Testino
You must take a definite idea, set it in the centre of your thinking, and then logically arrange your furthest thoughts in such a way that they are all closely linked with the original idea. Even if you do this for only a minute, it can be of great importance for the rhythm of the physical and etheric bodies.
Rudolf Steiner
Well, it was never supposed to be like that. Walt died before we had finished. The original idea of Walt’s was that you came down there, into the caves, and there were no pirates. But they had been there just seconds before! There was a hot meal on the table, steaming.
John Hench
No baby boomer has a completely original idea, but after 13 years on ‘Today’ and another 11 on ‘Dateline,’ almost 30 years total at NBC, I felt the urge to find out what was ‘behind the camera.’ I had the feeling there was ‘something more,’ though ‘more’ might be less.
Jane Pauley
Similarities in the vampire genre are so rampant that there’s really no such thing as an original idea – only an original take on an idea that’s been done before.
Jeaniene Frost
It’s not really an original idea, but there’s something that goes along with power and celebrity that starts to make you feel like you’re impervious to certain forces that the rest of us have to live with.
Jonathan Dee
There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.
Nancy Gibbs
It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
Victor Vasarely
It’s true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of the world’s best engineers, all concentrating on improving the product, reducing the cost, things of that sort.
Jack Kilby
I didn’t expect major labels would embrace MySpace, and the original idea for music on the site was the unsigned bands, the independent bands.
Tom Anderson
I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea.
Milton Avery
Our original idea was to help three or four hundred candidates in the first election run for the Ohio State legislature and the California legislature around the country.
Pete du Pont
It’s just like music when you reckon it up. It’s like listening to Pavement it’s just The Fall in 1985, isn’t it? They haven’t got an original idea in their heads.
Mark E. Smith
The original idea before Mint was a life and goal planning system I called Carpe Viva. The idea was that all of life’s goals, from buying a house, getting an MBA, or learning Spanish could be quantified in both time and money.
Aaron Patzer
It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
Victor Vasarely
An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
Stephen Fry
The original idea before Mint was a life and goal planning system I called Carpe Viva. The idea was that all of life’s goals, from buying a house, getting an MBA, or learning Spanish could be quantified in both time and money.
Aaron Patzer
As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.
Damon Lindelof
Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits.
Jack Kilby
My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
T Bone Burnett
After the Volcker Fund collapsed, I got another grant from the Lilly Endowment to do a history of the U.S., which I worked on from 1962-66. The original idea was to take the regular facts and put a libertarian assessment on everything.
Murray Rothbard
I often wonder why people remake movies. Is there just a lack of imagination out there that they can’t come up with an original idea?
Michael Beck
An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes – and as with memes in their original version.
Richard Dawkins
The whole idea is preserving the music and the art and not having us and our faces and our individual characters distract from that. That was the original idea, and now it’s really become part of what Tool is. It has allowed us to really concentrate on our music and our show.
Justin Chancellor
Writing is much more satisfying on a certain level than acting ever was. Because you’re not interpreting someone else’s original idea, you can come up with your own.
Michael Beck
I often wonder why people remake movies. Is there just a lack of imagination out there that they can’t come up with an original idea?
Michael Beck
The original idea of being anonymous – it was a great, naive idea on paper in 2008, not knowing to what degree we’d be touring or to what extent this was going to be a professional operation. That regimen is very hard to live by. What I hadn’t foreseen was the fans and their willingness to embrace that and play along.
Tobias Forge
The whole idea is preserving the music and the art and

The whole idea is preserving the music and the art and not having us and our faces and our individual characters distract from that. That was the original idea, and now it’s really become part of what Tool is. It has allowed us to really concentrate on our music and our show.
Justin Chancellor
I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea.
Milton Avery
‘Sabotage’ was a work for hire. It wasn’t my original idea or script or anything.
David Ayer
My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
T Bone Burnett
After the Volcker Fund collapsed, I got another grant from the Lilly Endowment to do a history of the U.S., which I worked on from 1962-66. The original idea was to take the regular facts and put a libertarian assessment on everything.
Murray Rothbard
No baby boomer has a completely original idea, but after 13 years on ‘Today’ and another 11 on ‘Dateline,’ almost 30 years total at NBC, I felt the urge to find out what was ‘behind the camera.’ I had the feeling there was ‘something more,’ though ‘more’ might be less.
Jane Pauley
The original idea of being anonymous – it was a great, naive idea on paper in 2008, not knowing to what degree we’d be touring or to what extent this was going to be a professional operation. That regimen is very hard to live by. What I hadn’t foreseen was the fans and their willingness to embrace that and play along.
Tobias Forge
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
Eric Hoffer
No, it’s interesting to remake a film for the contemporary audience today. I think it’s a good idea; it needs to respect the original idea. Don’t just take the title and change everything else.
Dario Argento