Christian Scott Quotes

The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.

Pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable - to me, that's something I'm definitely interested in and want to pursue.

If you want to be in the world I live in, which is a creative world with new ideas, then you've got to get away from the norm. You've got to go for it.

All I really want to do is things I haven't done. 'I'm gonna put a paper bag on my head and be on the cover of 'Billboard,' see what I can get away with - if they'll let me.' And they let me. And I am literally giggling inside for, like, a month that I got away with it.

Sometimes, not knowing what you're doing allows you to do things you never knew you could do.

I'm a total nonconformist; for me, it's about going down rabbit holes.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

I want to do everything I can possibly do to step outside the box.

I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.

I'm a curious person. I like to ask questions. Well, why? People would say, it's never been done. It's never been done does not mean that it can't be done.

I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.

It's something I have always tried to do in my career - play outside the box.

I guess I should say I like to do things that people say you can't do.

I've always been interested in kind of doing the thing that you weren't necessarily recommended to do.

It's always been my intention to never be boxed in. I never like to do something that it feels like I've done before.

As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.

To be fair, on a good project, no matter whether it's improvised or scripted or meticulously prepared, or all up for grabs, it's always, always beyond the safety zone. Every project becomes interesting and exciting once you move beyond that routine. You always aspire to that. It's not that this improvisational mode is the only mode that facilitates that.

We’re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people haven’t, you need to do things the wrong way. Initiate a failure by doing something that’s very silly, unthinkable, naughty, dangerous. Watching why that fails can take you on a completely different path. It’s exciting, actually. To me, solving problems is a bit like a drug. You’re on it, and you can’t get off.

I'd rather experiment than follow the same formula. I'm a curious person. It's gotten me into trouble, but I say, 'Why not? Let's try it.'

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

I like pushing boundaries.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.