Max Beerbohm Quotes

Honestly, as a director, at least for me, if I start doing the same thing over and over again, I'm going to get bored really quickly.

I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

I wouldn't want to make the same film every time. I get easily bored.

I didn't want to write the same book over and over.

If it feels like you're aiming for something too familiar, and you're not having a primary new experience, then what's the point of making that movie? It's been done before, so try to find something new out of it.

For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.

I have to stay interested. I can't do the same thing over and over again, which is why I don't do - I've made sequels, but it's the movies that are not sequels that I enjoy the most.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.

I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the best time. I think 'Blank Project' is about carrying on. Its that thing where you're making something because you have to, but you don't know how or why.

Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

Anytime you do something different, a lot of attention gets put on it.

If something comes around that would be a challenge, then that would be wonderful. But if it's a watered-down version of something I've already done, I'd rather do something else.

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.

The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.

There's real peril in trying to repeat yourself, and apply rules that applied to something else to a new project.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

That's the nice thing about doing research. Whatever you do is novel, so you always have this sense of novelty, even if you are only using a new gadget.

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.