Carrie-Anne Moss Quotes

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

We all know that change is inevitable. It provides us with a challenge and an opportunity to grow and improve and to attract new members with new ideas.

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.

I always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over.

Every time, I try to make something different.

Every time I write a new book, I want to push myself to try something different.

I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.

Mainly, what I like to do is keep things varied and not get in a rut, not tell the same stories over and over.

Every time you create something new, there should be questions. And to me, that's a sign that you've actually done something that is transformative.

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

I try to make my box as big as it can be because I never want to do the same thing twice.

Because we are four creative people - four writers - there was no way that we were ever going to be satiated doing the same thing over and again. Change was inevitable for us. And a very natural thing.

What makes a book unique isn't always about having one big grand new idea. It's about combining many different ideas in new and interesting ways.

Really, I get inspired by just switching projects and instrumentation and things like that - that creative part of just being different every time is really what inspires me.

I knew what I didn't want to do- that's always my starting point. The starting point is always that I don't want to repeat myself. Or I try my best not to, with varying degrees of success.

I love stories and I don't like to repeat myself. And I look for new stuff, and as they say it gets harder.

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

It's always good to do something that is not a repeat. I just don't believe in repeating.

I don't write the same book over and over - I think if I did that, I would stop writing. I couldn't write a series with the same character, and I couldn't write a romance novel over and over again that takes place at a different beach every year. That's not who I am.

I want each season to feel new and special. I don't want it to feel, "Oh, more of this." That's something that's easy to do in the first three seasons, and harder to do as you go. I'd rather err on the side of blowing up everything and being like, "Why did you do that? There was more story to tell there," and moving the family to Mexico like on Weeds, instead of people going, "Oh, we've seen this already. We're tired of this."

Somebody said that writers are like otters... Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time they'll do a better trick or a different trick because they'd already done that one. And writers tend to be otters. Most of us get pretty bored doing the same trick. We've done it, so let's do something different.

I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing.

Nothing I've done is like anything else I've done before.

It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

You're encouraged to do the same kind of movies. But I would like to keep doing different things.