Colson Whitehead Quotes

For me, my criteria for making films is all about trying to do something different from the last time. So if I catch myself doing too much of one thing, I'm always trying to move away from that, because it's not going to be challenging enough to keep my attention and focus.

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.

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 always want to do - take everything and take it to the next step. I don't want to just keep doing something the same ol' thing. Obviously, I could have wrote 'Mother' 20 times and made tons of money and be playing gigantic arenas and whatever, but that's not really what I want to do.

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

We like to try doing new things in the shows and doing things that we haven't done before.

I try to pick the best from what is offered to me, and then with roles, also, I try to add something new. There is a constant conflict to not become repetitive.

I don't like to stick to one formula. That gets boring. I get bored, so I want to try different ways of getting inside something.

My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.

I'm very conscious of the idea of trying to each time present something that I haven't presented before. It's a challenge to me to find something new, to find something innovative, but it's also very exciting.

If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored...and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!

With each film, i need an artistic challenge so I don't get bored! I like to tackle challenges.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

I love finding and doing new things and trying stuff out; that's my favorite thing to do.

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

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.

I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing.

It's so wide; that's what I love most about my career. It's been varied, and the music has been varied, because I find myself getting bored pretty easily. So for me, to work in the studio has been great. I didn't go on the road; I just worked on a different project every day, a different kind of music, and that's the challenge I love.

The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.

You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.

Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.

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

I just don't like boring myself. That's one of the main reasons I did 'Ice Age' - because I'd never done something like this before.

Every time I write a new book, I want to push myself to try something different.