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I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.

I may be a maverick, but it doesn't mean I like playing tricks.

The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion.

My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.

If you're calling yourself a maverick and you're not Dirk Nowitzki, then you are probably not one. In fact, this rule applies to anyone declaring themselves a 'God-fearing Christian' or a 'Man of the people.'

A maverick feels like he has no choice however difficult his choice of expression. In my case, it was going backwards into tonality. It seemed so wrong. The idea that progress is going into the past in a new way is very strange, even though there are precedents.

I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.

Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.

I've seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them 'mavericks with mentors.' Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them.

Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing.