Maverick Carter Quotes

Companies that tend to survive are the rebels.

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

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

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

If anyone ever tells me something doesn't go together, it makes me want to try it.

I like to step outside of what people's idea of me might be. I suppose that makes me a bit of a rule-breaker. I like to take chances.

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.

Everyone's supposed to stay in their lines and be neat. 'You're a rapper. You're supposed to rap, carry a boom box, wear chains, and go to the club - that's all you do. What are you doing collecting art? What are you talking about? Wait a minute, you're getting out of the zone.' People hate when people cross lines.

I went to grad school because I wanted to learn the rules so I would know how to break them. Breaking the rules is saying, 'I'm breaking in, OK? I'm breaking in your very comfortable little house over here, and I'm going to take a room.'

The world of entertainment is, like the world of fashion, becoming increasingly populated by those who don't want to do things the same old boring way.

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

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

You don't know what the country is ready for unless you're pushing that envelope, and I was told that I couldn't develop 'Will and Grace'.

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

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

I love challenging the status quo.

I have a certain temperament, a disposition that I think lends itself to not playing outside the lines that much. But I do test the boundaries, certainly, and break one or two of my own. Some people are mystified by it, but not me.

To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.

My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules.

Being vital means knowing the rules and being brave enough to break them.