Gary McCord Quotes

Don’t repeat yourself. It’s not only repetitive, it’s redundant, and people have heard it before.

I fear becoming formulaic. Some of my books are.

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

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.

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.

When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

It's all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me.

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

I don't want to see a movie twice. I don't want to do anything twice.

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 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.

Nothing is said that has not been said before.

Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.

Nobody wants to see sketch comedy that's the same sketch they've seen time and time again, or that's just a rehash of that thing.

I may play the same songs night to night, but I never play them the same way.

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

What makes art in general, and literature in particular, remarkable, what distinguishes them from life, is precisely that they abhor repetition. In everyday life, you can tell the same joke thrice and, thrice getting a laugh, become the life of the party. In art, though, this sort of conduct is called 'cliche.'

You don't want to play the same role twice.

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.

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.'

I hate anything that seems like something that has been done.