Jason Gann Quotes

Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.

The worst art is when it's really convenient and comfy.

If there's anything I hate more than a stupid action comedy, it's an incompetent stupid action comedy. It's not so bad it's good. It's so bad it's nothing else but bad.

'Downton Abbey' is just one cliche after another, and it is a really, really poor piece of drama. But that's only me talking. That's just my take on it.

If it's a terrible script, it's a terrible bore.

I'm a cliche.

You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.

The key thing about me is that I'm really not very interesting.

My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time.

I wasn't very funny or flashy, I was kind of boring.

The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you're writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn't work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.

Movies, like old-school TV, are cheesy, corny. Movies are not exciting anymore. They're not cutting edge.

Young people like things that are fresh and new. If something does seem fatigued, or derivative, they're going to let you know.

Baseball consists of a million threads of dullness, on a loom of ennui, woven into a tapestry of tedium.

To me, relaxing doesn't mean that we play ding-dong songs and look at a wall of bamboo. It's just completely unoriginal.

Most movies were always terrible.

'Boat Trip' is more tiresome and dumb than actually bad.

When anyone pitches me - and I've heard it a million times: 'It's the black Seinfeld,' or, 'It's the new version of something that's already been successful' - I immediately shut it off. I won't ever entertain doing 'the new version of such-and-such.'

Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.

How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.

Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.