Daniel Handler Quotes

I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.

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

Nothing is said that has not been said before.

I don't like the idea of seeing a movie and it feels comfortable because you've heard it before.

I try my best to find variety in what I'm doing, but there's a lot out there that's the same.

I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.

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.

The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.

I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.

I don't want to repeat myself.

Who wants to see the same play again? I certainly don't want to write the same play again and again.

We do worry that we might be making something we've made before. It's important that we make something we've never made before.

I fear becoming formulaic. Some of my books are.

My mandate to myself since I've been involved in these movies was 'make every single movie different, so there's never 'X-Men' fatigue.'

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.

It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.

It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.

I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.

To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number; to oblige the most fertile genius to say only what is new, would be to contract his volumes to a few pages. Yet, surely, there ought to be some bounds to repetition; libraries ought no more to be heaped for ever with the same thoughts differently expressed, than with the same books differently decorated.

I try not to repeat myself. It's the hardest thing in the world to do -- there are only so many notes one human being can master. .

I'm bored by repeating myself, and I would imagine that an audience would be bored by me repeating myself.

People get tired of the same old sound. They want something new.

That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.

No matter how revolutionary something is, if you keep doing it over and over and over then it does loses it's excitement and it's high dynamics and people get used to ... get used to it like anything else you know um and then it just becomes a normal deal and then it becomes not very interesting at all.

What people have to make sure of is that they're not replicating something that already exists. You really have to ask yourself: "Is there a point in me doing this? Has this already been said before? Is this moving things along or is this just adding to the giant pile of junk that's already there?"