We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.
Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting noticed.
As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator.
Good artists copy, great artists steal.