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Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent.

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood.

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

Hollywood is all made up, anyway. Especially the stories and angles that people want to pin on you.

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.