Huda Kattan Quotes

I just try to go outside the box. In fact, I go outside the box so much I go... 'What box!'

I think there is something to be said for what you can do when you don't know what you aren't supposed to be able to do.

If I start playing by the rules, I will inhibit myself of the possibilities that lie beyond. I don't like to be framed or given borders to operate in or curtail my thought process and as a writer it's not only my choice but also my need to go beyond the given framework.

People who are not leaders automatically gravitate toward lines--limitations set by others. Many people are taught this in kindergarten when they are instructed to stay within the lines while coloring. But leaders are more creative than that. They look for options and opportunities. They try to take things in a new direction, or beyond the limit. Progress and innovation are made by people who think without lines.

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

We need the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the least likely to go very far.

Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

Feynman once said, 'Science is imagination in a straitjacket.' It is ironic that in the case of quantum mechanics, the people without the straitjackets are generally the nuts.

I like taking up challenges. I prefer working with scripts that are different and veer from the tried and tested. So far, it's always worked.

People put limitations on their creativity, believing they have to rely on what they know and what they have done.

You get inspiration from craziest places. It's just about being creative. You gotta step outside that box, you know what I'm saying, to reach the people. You never know who can feel it; who it can connect to.

I wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn't know how to do it any other way.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

In network TV, you have to present the box before you can step outside it.

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

Always listen to experts. They will tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.

If it feels like we're re-creating something rather than creating something, we don't do it.

There's no set way to do anything. Sometimes you have to go outside the box; sometimes you can do things the standard way. Like, you don't have to have a beat to write a song: sometimes you can write lyrics without the music.

I don't come up with ideas in a test tube; I come up with ideas by breaking test tubes. That's how I've always been.

If you want people to think out of the box, you shouldn't create the box in the first place.

The majority of advertising agency creatives are creative people, but we've disciplined ourselves to think within traditional formats. I want to change that.

The idea is to be unrestrained by categories.

Human beings thrive on imagination and pushing boundaries and limitations. Imposing limits when we don't actually have any true idea of what's possible is like imposing a steel trap over the mind.

All of my films have been very hard to understand at the script stage because they're very different. At the time I did them they were not conventional. The executives could only think in terms of what they'd already seen. It's hard for them to think in terms of what has never been done before.