Patrice Leconte Quotes

So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?

I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.

You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.

So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.

Publishers just want you to write the same book over and over again. But why would I want to do that? It would be like putting on a threadbare dressing-gown day after day.

I think it's an actor's responsibility to change every time. Not only for himself and the people he's working with, but for the audience. If you just go out and deliver the same dish every time... it's meat loaf again... you'd get bored. I'd get bored.

When you're just in there with the same guys on a regular basis, I think there's a chance to become a little - I don't want to say lazy, but I'll say complacent. So to get a chance to go in there and mix it up with these other guys is exciting.

If you can do something with your eyes closed, it is time to try something new.

Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure.

Why should I keep doing things that I've done before?

More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you or the world has changed.

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.

That's the ideal. Not to get stuck in a rut playing the same role.

There's a real danger in trying to stay king of the mountain. You stop taking risks, you stop being as creative, because you're trying to maintain a position. Apart from anything else that really takes the fun out of it.

Most of my friends who got shows right away are still just doing shows, and they have no need to create.

If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.

People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my job to always change people's minds. I've known that for a long time and I've had to do it.

The reason I stopped doing the band is that I wanted to do something different... Yes had become like 'Groundhog Day' for me. I loved being in the band, but it was album-tour, album-tour, different album-different tour.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Actually, to be honest, this is a useful time to not be knowing what I'll be doing in 2013 or 2014, because really, for the last however many years, I've known what I've been doing for years and years ahead. You get into a cycle of non-reflection, and that gets a bit scary.