John Baldessari 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.

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

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

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

I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't see why I won't continue on that path.

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

One of the reasons why I don't write the same kind of book again and again is that I get bored very easily, so I like to make things interesting for myself.

Life would be much easier if I just wrote the same book over and over again. But I'm not interested in doing that.

I just never want to repeat myself. I also don't want to be bored in life. The great luxury of being an actor is you get to be different people, and I would hate to be repetitive.

Uniformity is not very interesting or sustainable - it's boring.

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

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 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.

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

I don't like to get bored and don't like to repeat myself.

I really don't look at myself as just one thing. I'm kind of scattered and like to have my hands in a lot of different projects. It makes me who I am.

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

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.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

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

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 could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.

I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.

You don't want to play the same roles or do the same genre.