Alexandre Aja Quotes

They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze.

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

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

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

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

What can I but enumerate old themes?

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

Nobody wants to see sketch comedy that's the same sketch they've seen time and time again, or that's just a rehash of that thing.

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

When you think of it I haven't really done a lot of horror. It's amazing: I have done some really good ones, but I haven't done a lot of them.

There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.

When you hear the first five seconds to a song and you've pretty much heard the whole song, that's kind of a bummer.

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.

I am very, very anti-slasher.

People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting.

If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death.

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

If you do the same thing too often, it gets to be the only thing you can do.

As soon as I know how to do something, I usually get bored with it.

One of the things that would steer me away from a franchise is that I'm playing the same character all the time and I wouldn't want to be known for that.

I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.

I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.

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

It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.