Nivin Pauly Quotes

You don't want to try to recreate something you've already done.

I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.

There's real peril in trying to repeat yourself, and apply rules that applied to something else to a new project.

I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk. I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work - those are always the things that break through.

Hollywood looks backwards and tries to repeat. And we really try not to do that. We don't always succeed, but I really think that what we try and do is different.

We do worry that we might be making something we've made before. It's important that we make something we've never made before.

I'm all for trying anything once; otherwise, you end up like David Guetta - reproducing the same formula over and over.

Why do something that's already been done?

No, I would never in a million years compare anything we've done to anything we've previously done. I don't believe in it - I think it's bad.

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

Whatever you do, don't play it safe. Don't do things the way they've always been done. Don't try to fit the system. If you do what's expected of you, you'll never accomplish more than others expect.

I suppose the most important thing is to stay interested. It's very easy in life if you get to a place where you're successful to hit the same groove on the record player over and over again because it's safe.

I feed off variety. I don't want to repeat myself if I can help it, but once they've seen you doing one thing, directors often just want you to do it again.

There is an inherent creative restlessness at Laika where we always want to challenge ourselves.

If you write in the same way over and over again, like, in the same place with the same techniques and with the same people, you're sort of writing the same song over and over again.

Be it in the movies I make or on stage, I think it's a trap to keep doing the same thing over and over again.

'Heavy Rain' responded to a period of my life, things I strongly believed in, things I wanted to suggest or experiment with. I'm really happy with the overall feedback; the reception was a success.

If you have a good movie in hand and it is successful, you gain confidence to experiment.

It is only by trying new things that we can hope to create products that are original. Don't just say those words; act like you believe them.

All sorts of things can happen when you’re open to new ideas and playing around with things.

It's supposed to feel totally foreign [to play in a series], every single time. But, going back for another go at it is good, on the one hand, but it's also bad, on another hand, because your ideas dry up sometimes, and also you get lazy sometimes because you're around the same people.

I just know that sameness, repetition, and conceptualizing are the acting craft's adversaries, and it seems more intelligent to start off within a framework where those things are, to some degree, taken out of your hands.

Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future.

I think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not what I want to do.

A man's work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing it. If he thinks that, he is likely to feel that all he needs is merely to go on repeating himself . . . so long as a person is searching for better ways of doing his work, he is fairly safe.