Recycled Ideas Quotes

Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and again - and have repeatedly led to disaster. Most of these ideas are not new. They are just being recycled with re-treaded rhetoric.

There's nothing new, even 'new' is inspired by something. We're all, either consciously or unconsciously, we're inspired.

It's really rare in TV not to think, 'Well, I've seen a version of this before.'

What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually a recurrence of a line of thinking explored in the past.

Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.

The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.

Most filmmakers' entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies. That's why we have so many cyclical movies that look like other movies. But I'm not cynical. I even go to some of those movies.

I think anything created today can be said to be a ripoff. It's hard to find anything original any more.

I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought.