David Slade Quotes

Doing different things is great. It's always good to change things up. If you do the same thing over and over, it can get boring.

You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.

What's fun for me is to try new things and push myself and not get stuck in one genre or another, or stuck with one character or another.

After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left.

I don't always just want to do the same thing.

Dynamic change is always my favorite thing. As soon as I feel like I'm doing all of the same stuff over and over again, I'm bored and sad.

I love a challenge. So when I did 'Friday,' I didn't want to do another comedy back-to-back. With 'Set It Off,' that was a little different from 'The Negotiator' and 'The Italian Job.' So for me, it's all about challenge. It's all about challenge and about just learning.

Honestly, as a director, at least for me, if I start doing the same thing over and over again, I'm going to get bored really quickly.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

One of the reasons why I don't write the same kind of book again and again is that I get bored very easily, so I like to make things interesting for myself.

I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.

Any characters that make me think, 'I don't know if I can do this,' are the ones I most want to do. I don't want to do the same thing over and over.

You don't want to play the same role twice.

I like to keep doing something new and different so people can't say I'm doing the same thing all the time. I like to challenge myself.

If you don't try out new things, then you will be left behind.

I worked very hard not to have average days. I never do the same thing twice.

If you do the same thing all the time, it's not very challenging.

If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.

I don't like to get bored and don't like to repeat myself.

It could get saturated or monotonous if I would do the same characters again and again. That is why, to save myself from that feeling, I take time out to choose roles that excite me.

I want to try everything I can; I want to push my boundaries and experiment with characters and genres that I have yet to try.

Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

I always imagined that I would learn something each time that I would take to a new project, then I realized that each new project poses a completely different challenge.

I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.