Mohsen Makhmalbaf Quotes

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.

I want to show my versatility and how diverse I am, how I approach the track, my rhythm, my melodies. It's something different. Sometimes, the things I do haven't ever been done.

There is something about the sameness people like. And what I've tried to do with all the zombie films is purposely make them different. That may be part of why it takes so long for people to see what it's intended to be.

The movies I do have to be different in some way. Nothing vanilla will do.

I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part.

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.

I learned to embrace my individuality, and if that meant writing a song on one chord over and over again, then that's what I do.

Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.

People don't want just vanilla. They want 31 flavors. I couldn't do what Rihanna does. I couldn't do what Gaga does. They can't do what I do.

All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show.

Certain kinds of people will always have an issue with my music. But that's fine; it's OK. I don't want to be the McDonald's of music. I don't want to not turn anyone off. If you were everybody's cup of tea, you'd probably be boring.

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else.

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different.

Every part that I do has to be different from the last part that I did so I don't become a stereotype.

If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.

The thing I'm most proud of about - not all of our movies, but a lot of our movies - is that you might love 'em, you might hate 'em, but most of the time, they're trying to be different or trying new things, which I think is really important.

People classify things and that's fair enough. But if somebody wants to make something different, that doesn't make them any less of an artist.

I always like to do something different in every song.

I don't write the same book twice.

I want to make every film different from my previous one.