Repetitive Content Quotes

I think [Hollywood] has achieved everything they’ve always dreamed of. The audience now seems to be very dumb. They pay money to watch the same film. Now, you could argue, that's because it makes them feel comfortable. When they go to a movie now, it's almost like hearing a pop song. You know the rhythms, you know when the downbeat is going to come, you know when the explosion is going to come… And so as life becomes more complex, as the economy is in trouble, people cling to what makes them comfortable, so they go again and again to see the same movie.

I think a challenge with every sitcom is, how do you maintain things that people are attached to without becoming so reiterative that it just feels like you're sort of watching a reenactment of previous episodes?

The pledge drive has everything going against it as broadcasting. It's repetitive. It's ad-libbed by people who can't ad-lib. It's about asking for money, which is something nobody wants to hear, even from their own relatives.

I think the problem with the cinema currently is that so much of the money that goes movies that offer a certain kind of repetition.

The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.

Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.

I'm a sci-fi fan, but a lot of the sci-fi you're getting is the same. It's very stereotypical.

I get it that remakes are a drag to hear about. I'm on the Internet all the time. I know what they say. Like there's no original ideas in Hollywood.

One of the major complaints for long-running shows is that they become mundane.

Arguably, in business books, I don't think there's much that has never been said before.

You don't want to fall into the trip of doing a 'Predator' story every week for the rest of our lives just because it gets good numbers.

Am I overjoyed when somebody says, 'Oh, we're going to do another Jane Austen?' No - because there's never anything in it for me.

A lot of parts on television are static. Nothing really changes.

The film studios learned to our dismay but to their pleasure that if they spent $200 million making a film they could make half a billion on it. So they were not interested anymore in quality films... They can't afford to be that risky at those prices. Consequently you're getting a lot of remakes, sequels, dopey comedies full of toilet jokes...

I feel like I write the same album every time but each time I try to convey the message more simply.

Every time I watch CNN, it feels like you're assigning me homework. Is Trump a Russian spy? I don't know. You tell me - I'm watching the news. It feels like I'm watching CNN watch the news. Just take an hour, figure out what you want to say, then go on the air.

I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.

People get caught up in recreating something, and that actually hurts the genre of music because there's nothing new.

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

It was Christopher's brilliant concept that he did not want this to become like every other sitcom where you do one take, and the audience gets bored with seeing it ten times, you know, over and over again.

'Potato-chip news' is news that's repetitive, requires little effort to absorb, and is consumable in massive quantities: true crime, natural disasters, political punditry, celebrity gossip, sports gossip, or endless photographs of beautiful houses, food, or clothes.

I don't want people turning on the telly and going, 'Dear God, not him again.'

...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.

Repeats are the absolute soul-crushing killers of the comics page.

One of the only things that bothered me with WWE and being on every week was blowing off so many great storylines so fast, just out of necessity.