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I never want to repeat myself. I can't imagine anything else as upsetting as realizing I'm redoing something I did before. For some reason, when it comes to film, I'm very good at not repeating myself. Even though in the rest of my life, I'm constantly repeating my mistakes.

I'm trying to be very aware of not repeating myself.

When I wrote 'Hatchet,' I knew that I was not re-inventing the wheel. That was never my intention. My goal was to make an '80s-style slasher flick that actually holds up. Basically, I wanted to make the movie that I wanted to see and pay no mind to current trends or conventions.

Work-wise, I try not to repeat myself too often. And I have to love whatever I'm doing.

I think I've probably re-invented myself three or four times now, if that's what one calls it.

I don't write the same book twice.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.

I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.

You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.

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.