Copycat Culture Quotes

I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful. I don't think there's quite as much innovation.

Americans have got it so dinged into them that they are the most fortunate people on Earth, and that the rest of the world - the sooner it copies what America is like, the better.

There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.

The theme of counterfeits, of those that produce and sell them, has always been part of the culture of M.I.A. When I was contacted by Versace, it seemed a great idea to invert the circle. Versace's designs have always been copied; now it's Versace that copies the copies, so those that copy must copy the copies. So this will continue.

People are scared to make something that doesn't look like another film that made a lot of money. It means we get 'Four Weddings And A Funeral' made again and again.

I think once 'Empire' hit, there was a lot of bad black TV that followed, because we work in the business of hit-seekers and copycats, so they're like, 'Oh this is a show about black people; this is about music, OK let's do a version of that.' And, of course, it doesn't work because it's not organic.

I'm not really against a lot of things unless they are just pure exploitation and then they create their own copycat culture that comes from someone acting irresponsibly. That's dangerous when that happens.

We copied our hairstyle from Prince Charles, not the Beatles.

What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?

Bollywood goes through these phases. Whatever makes money is quickly lapped up by all. They all want to play safe.

It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.

Girl bands still do just copy the way men move onstage. To me, that is so backwards, so un-radical.