A Quote by Andres Segovia

It is not so hard to be original, what is hard, is to be original with continuity.

Andres Segovia

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Be Original Continuity Hard Original

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Andres Segovia
Spanish - Musician
February 21, 1893 - June 2, 1987

You can write ten versions of a scene, and then, on the day, discover that something in the original scene worked. It's hard on writers. Hard on actors, hard on editors, hard on me, hard on the producers, who require patience and confidence. But I can't get to the end without going through this process.

Bennett Miller

I'm not original, but I strive toward it as much as possible. I tried really hard on Weekend Update to do something that I considered original, which was, I tried to cut all cleverness out of the joke.

Norm MacDonald

People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.

Dan Scanlon

It's very hard for a studio to take a chance on a piece of original material. They used to have the fall-back of DVD sales. They had ways in which they could safely make an investment in a piece of original material, and those opportunities aren't necessarily there anymore.

Doug Liman

We now live in a world both in film and television where everything is based on something. You point out, "Star Wars" was an original screenplay, "Raiders of the Lost Ark," an original screenplay, "Ghostbusters" an original screenplay, "Back to the Future." All these things that people love were original ideas many years ago.

Alfred Gough

An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.

Thomas Campbell

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.

Susan Powter

In the past we believed both sexes were born with original sin. Today, we have come to unconsciously believe in the original sin of boys, but the original innocence of girls.

Warren Farrell

Really good original ideas are very hard to come up with. Good ideas - easy. Really good, original ideas - it can take months.

Nicholas Sparks

Really original material is quite hard to find.

Alex Garland

Once trust is tarnished, it is hard to restore it to its original glow.

William Arthur Ward

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

John Landis Mason

You never want to have a movie be derivative, because that's the worst if you ask me. I always want to be in original material, or an original idea, or an original vision, rather than a rehash of some other movie.