Andy Serkis Quotes

You hear again and again that audiences want to see movies that are different, and critics say we make the same thing again and again in Hollywood, then you go and make something different, and you get kicked in the gut for it.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

You're not going to reinvent the wheel every time you go out, because that would disappoint the audience.

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

There's always haters, no matter what you're doing - whether they're complaining that everything you do sounds the same, or it's too different.

Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you.

If you read all the time what other people have done, you will the think the way they thought.

The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It's so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that's where you start to cheat yourself - and your fans, in the end - because there's an inherent dishonesty in pandering and dishing up what everyone's expecting.

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.

It's just that if you're not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not so much the good things but the bland things - the ordinary things - the weaker things get repeated- the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

The consistency - either the theme from record to record, or the band, the different musicians - it really varies. So if I get criticism, I don't worry about that, because I'm still being creative.

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

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.

If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think.

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

No, I would never in a million years compare anything we've done to anything we've previously done. I don't believe in it - I think it's bad.

Most filmmakers give me the reference of my own songs; doing the same thing over and over again doesn't push you to do better.

You can drive yourself crazy and tie yourself in knots trying to anticipate what someone's going to like or not like, and doing test screenings and opinion polls. But pay too much mind to that, and you'll wind up with a big pile of mush.

The world needs more standardization, less innovation.

I just gotta keep doing what I'm doing, and just continuing to grow and progress as an artist. People who are saying that about Lil B need to be innovative and not be tools.

Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.