Creative Deviation Quotes

A comedian sees the world bent. I'm tangent to the circle.

I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it.

I got in trouble in film school at USC because one of my Super-8 movies there, in the first semester, involved a snowmobile chase scene. I made an action scene, and they were like, 'That wasn't what you were supposed to be doing.'

I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some point.

All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.

No art can be grafted with success on another art. For though they all profess the same origin, and to proceed from the same stock, yet each has its own peculiar modes both of imitating nature and of deviating from it... The deviation, more especially, will not bear transplantation to another soil.

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

What I'm always afraid of is going "off-book,I always get upset when the director leaves the classic comic that was so very popular. I argued, and I won't say with who about what, but when we go way away from the original source material... that material is popular for a reason and I like to stick with it.

My movies, in general, I have the impression that when they finish of course they're never originally what you had in mind.

The problem is that every time people have deviated from the Disney playbook in hand-drawn animation, they've done so with staff that are nowhere near Disney-level talent or Disney-level budgets.