I've gotten to a point where I wouldn't direct someone else's material. It would only be something totally original.
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It is always possible to create something original.
If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.
I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with someone else's characters and stories.
I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement - it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.
I do worry that it's impossible to write something original, that there's nothing that a human hasn't already thought of. But I can put it out of my mind and get on with what I'm doing.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
My intention was to create something that people loved to look at and they could find inspiration from, and that was it.
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.