Alexandre Aja Quotes

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!

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

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

We all get caught up in the process, especially when you have a wave of success. But to me, being creative is not about rehashing everything you've done over and over. It's to continue to grow, continue to get better.

If something comes around that would be a challenge, then that would be wonderful. But if it's a watered-down version of something I've already done, I'd rather do something else.

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

I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with.

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

I fear becoming formulaic. Some of my books are.

When you want to do something that is challenging or interesting or new, you never find the place. All the places are obvious or old or generic. And so you realize that the role of architecture is fundamental.

I try not to repeat myself. It's the hardest thing in the world to do -- there are only so many notes one human being can master. .

When you make something that everyone likes, it's very easy to say, "Well, I'll just repeat that." Because that was easy. I have a formula. But creatively, it's not very interesting.

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

What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.

I've always avoided sequels, unless I felt there was something fresh.

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.

Originality is really important.

Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.

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.

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

What I like on Kickstarter is when I see real innovation and I see people building something new. It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.

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.

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

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative.