James Lassiter Quotes

The politician who tries to ape his rival or predecessor is, almost by definition, a second rater, inferior to the real thing.

I had a date with a girl I called 'the parrot.' All she did was repeat everything I said. She never had an original thought of her own. Everything I liked, she liked. Everything I hated, she hated. It was annoying!

The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you're writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn't work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.

To me, relaxing doesn't mean that we play ding-dong songs and look at a wall of bamboo. It's just completely unoriginal.

I'm a cliche.

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

I'm not a big fan of remakes. I never wanted to do a remake.

Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.

I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.

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

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

The worst art is when it's really convenient and comfy.

The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.

They made a fatal mistake in doing 'Psycho' again. Why do that? Why revisit something that stands for itself?

Movies, like old-school TV, are cheesy, corny. Movies are not exciting anymore. They're not cutting edge.

Young people like things that are fresh and new. If something does seem fatigued, or derivative, they're going to let you know.

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

Isn't nearly every Hindi film a rehash of some movie or the other?

How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.

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

Everybody steals my lines.

It's a copycat league.

I'm not big on remakes.

I don't know what I want, but I do know that I don't want the usual stuff, the cliched stuff is just too mind-numbing. They sell, I know, but it makes me sad to know that.