William Butler Yeats Quotes

Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings

When you do a slasher film, you find yourself repeating the same kind of scene, then it becomes not very challenging and not very interesting.

People make sequels a lot in Hollywood, and sometimes it feels like there's never an original thought.

There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.

I just think that a metal band covering a bunch of metal songs is so boring, so 'done before.'

There's nothing new under the sun. We talk about the same things all the time on air.

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.

When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.

After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it.

The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done.

I don't want to say the same lines every night.

Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career.

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

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over again. I don't think it's good to become so dependent on a certain writing process.

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

We come too late to say anything which has not been said already.

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

Doing a remake is an open admission that, 'boss, I don't have anything of my own.'

After 'The Fellowship of the Ring,' the films that followed it, instead of having their own unique aesthetic, they all wanted to be 'Lord of the Rings' as opposed to learning from 'Lord of the Rings.'

That's one of the problems in being a songwriter and living a long time. What you eventually end up doing is you start imitating yourself.

Beware of direct inspiration. It leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you.

Hollywood. It lacks originality. Remake sucks.' But I had to look deeper into it from my own perspective. We are not trying to compete with the original at all and that's what allowed me to pull the trigger without any hesitancy.

Hollywood's old trick: repeat a successful formula until it dies.

A lot of people just capitulate and say, "Well, that's just the way things are." I think that can be deadly for creative people.