Robert Altman Quotes

I'm not happy with just repeating myself.

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

I think what's really important is to challenge yourself. You can very easily fall into the rut of, 'We know it works! We'll use that old chestnut.'

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

I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.

When you are through changing, you are through.

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

I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that's it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I'd done something.

You always have to evolve - the minute you start building a moat around you to keep yourself safe, you're going to lose.

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

If you sit there and have that mentality of 'triple down on what you're good at,' you're never going to grow. You're always going to stay the same.

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've never been one to stay in a complacent place where I just let the grass grow around me.

I don't want to keep doing the same thing over and over for the rest of my life.

I have a massive fear of going stale and falling into a comfort zone.

If I do the same thing each year, that feels like I am sat on a shelf, and mentally that wouldn't be wise.

A life without change is not a life; it is a stagnant pool.

If you can do something with your eyes closed, it is time to try something new.

You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.

I want to experiment; I want to keep growing. I didn't want to just sit back and rest on my haunches and do the things I knew I could do for a while.

A man's work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing it. If he thinks that, he is likely to feel that all he needs is merely to go on repeating himself . . . so long as a person is searching for better ways of doing his work, he is fairly safe.

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

If you don't keep pushing the limits, you wake up one day and you're the "center square to block."

I suppose the most important thing is to stay interested. It's very easy in life if you get to a place where you're successful to hit the same groove on the record player over and over again because it's safe.