Jack Lowden Quotes

Everybody is doing the same old thing.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

What I dislike is conventional realism - a system of gestures, descriptions, psychological revelations that was once a vital way of representing the world but has become hackneyed through endless repetition. I'd argue that a conventional realist isn't a realist at all, but a falsifier of the real.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.

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

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

Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you.

When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.

I'm a cliche.

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

I don't really like groups that make the same statement over and over again. It's good, but kind of predictable.

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.

I had a date with a girl I called 'the parrot.' All she did was repeat everything I said. She never had an original thought of her own. Everything I liked, she liked. Everything I hated, she hated. It was annoying!

I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the same kind of thing. If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

The people that become the biggest jokes are people who do not change. They stay the way they were in the past. Look at Michael Jackson, he never evolved.

Habit is a great deadener.

The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you're writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn't work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.

I feel like a cliche.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

The worst art is when it's really convenient and comfy.

Young people like things that are fresh and new. If something does seem fatigued, or derivative, they're going to let you know.