Manoj Bajpayee Quotes

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

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

I think audiences crave something new. I don't think audiences want the same old thing, no matter how much conventional Hollywood tells you that.

I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.

You have to keep surprising your audience.

I have a hatred of familiarity. If I feel like I am doing something I've done before, it feels old and done. I feel I have no choice but to strike out in directions that feel new - anything less just doesn't seem worth it.

My mandate to myself since I've been involved in these movies was 'make every single movie different, so there's never 'X-Men' fatigue.'

It's more interesting to see new people on the screen when you go to the cinema. I don't want to see the same old faces.

It's always good to do something that is not a repeat. I just don't believe in repeating.

Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.

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.

What gets me excited is the original principle.

I don't want there to be a typical episode of 'The Walking Dead.' I want to try to give people different things every week because that's what I dig.

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

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.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative.

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

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.

If they haven't heard it before it's original.

I don't like the same old thing all the time.

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.

The goal is to make something that sounds new and different.

I think it's more important to make a lot of different things and keep coming up with new images and things that were never made before, than to do one thing and do it well.

Who wants to see the same play again? I certainly don't want to write the same play again and again.