Nancy Dubuc Quotes

When you're doing a series like this, you're constantly looking for new ways to excite your audience.

If Hollywood is going to keep going, the writers need to be creatively fulfilled by creating their own things. We need to generate new ideas, so we're not always cannibalizing old ones.

If I had done a sequel to 'Day of the Tentacle,' there probably wouldn't have been a 'Full Throttle.' If I did a 'Full Throttle' sequel, there wouldn't have been a 'Grim Fandango.' It's important to make new stuff up.

You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.

You're allowed to rip-off another score so close that it's ridiculous. In my opinion it's ridiculous, how closely one can just rip-off a score that happened a year or two earlier.

I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.

You can't patent a move. It's challenging enough to come up with a move that nobody else does... I try and do things that I would want to see done that I haven't seen other people do. Most wrestlers obviously don't think that way, and instead they steal somebody's move as soon as they've gone on to the next company.

A lot of people accuse me of copying Courtney Love.

I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.

Nothing in the television show 'True Detective' was plagiarized.

Blake is damned good to steal from.

Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.

Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.

In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didn't have the rights to the movie. I couldn't duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement.

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

Eight years of work can be copied in six months. It wasn't inevitable that it was going to work. A stolen design is stolen time.

I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

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

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.

Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.

The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.

They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.

Hollywood still makes things. We still export a couple billion dollars' worth of product overseas. Original, new product. Some people might not agree that it's original or new, but basically it is.