Matt Sydal Quotes

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.

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

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.

The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.

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

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

In differentiation, not uniformity, lies the path of progress.

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

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

If anyone has listened to my stuff over the years, they know I tend not to do the same thing twice.

I never do the same thing twice.

Be it in the movies I make or on stage, I think it's a trap to keep doing the same thing over and over again.

Apart from hard work and being in the right projects, you need to re-invent yourself. I'd be bored doing the same thing over and over, and the audience wouldn't like it, too. The trick is to break that monotony.

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

That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.

The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.

You don't just become number one because you sing like everybody else. There is something different you bring to the table. Make sure you are constantly getting into the newest technologies. Learn the history of what you do, and always respect the ones who came before you.

I always want to do things that are different. I don't want to be doing the same thing, the same performance constantly, and it feels like most people tell you that they are the same. However different you feel might approach them.

I'm not able to go in with an act that I use month to month year to year all the time. It's constantly evolving and changing and that keeps me on my toes but certainly adds to the challenge.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

After doing a total of five years of 'Daily Grace,' you kind of get burned out on doing the same thing over and over again, so I am allowing myself to not have totally any specific structure.

I don't repeat that many styles if I can help, although some have become classics. I try not to repeat. I'd rather surprise people.

Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.

I want good and different parts, different from what I've done.

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.