Redo Quotes

Anything worth doing is worth doing twice, the first time quick and dirty and the second time the best way you can.

Ali reversed the decision in a second fight with Joe Frazier. That's what would happen if I played Billie Jean again.

If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.

I would never try and do a remake off a movie. I think that's a whole different thing. I think everyone will always remember the first movie, and they will always compare it with the second one.

In hockey, there are no second chances, but the great thing about acting is that there actually are. If you do a scene and you think you can do better - take two!

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

If I feel like something needs to be updated, I'll break my neck to outdo the original.

The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made.

Better a decent remake than a bad original, don't you think?

You're not allowed to mess up in theater, and if you do, it is going to be embarrassing. But in film, if you make a mistake you just do it over again. You can just do another take.

To reverse and undo what has been done by a predecessor, is very often considered by a successor as the best proof he can give of his own capacity.

Personally, I'm not too fond of remakes.

I'd love to retouch my whole life.

In films, there is no scope to rectify any mistake... but in theatre, you can rectify it the next day.

Game Over is a very frustrating game convention. In short, it means, 'If you were not good enough or did not play the game the way the designer intended you to play, you should play again until you do it right.' What kind of story could a writer tell where the characters could play the same scene ten times until the outcome is right?

Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.

Whatever it is, go back and do it again.

Well, back to the old drawing board.

If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.

I felt that some of my work was OK. If I could do it over, I'd do better.

Usually, when people are asked, 'Would you ever do high school again?' a good 99 percent of them say, 'Oh God, no. I would never do that again.' I would absolutely go back to high school.

I'd like to do some things over again. I never want to repeat anything that went well, though - I just want to do better at slightly different things.

There are definitely plays that I wish that I could have back.

'Blackbird' is the only one I've ever wanted to redo. It just haunted me, this play. There was a sense of unfinished business because at the time we did it at Manhattan Theatre Club, there was real momentum to move it to Broadway.

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