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Quotes About Unscripted

Perhaps unscripted reality shows and written fiction have already blurred together into some new amalgamated mush, just as the line between commercials and programs has been trashed.
~ Tom Shales
Some of the greatest reality television we ever had was the moon landings. When you think about it, that was human emotion and people, unscripted, working with each other - and millions and millions of people around the world, glued to their television sets to share real-time in a brand new, fascinating human experience.
~ Chris Hadfield
Unscripted, unedited, and wholly authentic people are almost universally admired, especially if they have flaws, are not afraid to make live, red-blooded mistakes, and rather than trying are busy simply being.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Bam! That's me off the cuff. Blunt and in your face. No editing. I think it. I say it. You read it. Sometimes I don't even think it, I just say it.
~ Stephen Colbert
Still, the backfire potential during a live, unscripted televised exchange with reporters was significant.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
I do try to keep my show very improvisational. I don't work off a set list; I like to keep it more in the moment. I like to have information about where I'm going, what might be happening in that particular region as well. I like for people to feel like the show is for them.
~ Dane Cook
I like to do as much improv as I can do.
~ Jordan Klepper
I like to improvise; I think it's just a healthy thing to do, to keep everything loose and fun.
~ Adam Scott
We'll do it live... WE'LL DO IT LIVE! FUCK IT! DO IT LIVE... look, I'll write it and we'll do it live! Fucking thing SUCKS!
~ Bill O'Reilly
I've weirdly always got to show my bottom. For some reason my bum always comes out and it's not always written in the script.
~ Jonathan Bailey
I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.
~ Buster Keaton
I always work only with friends, but it must be about them and myself. Because I film only very personal moments, nothing preplanned, staged or written, it has to be real and spontaneous. Some of them have become famous, some are not yet famous, some will never be famous. But they are all my friends.
~ Jonas Mekas
Then we tried to come up with ideas for the sketches, and then, when we actually shot the movie, we really just sat down - never previewed the movie - we just really winged it.
~ Joel Hodgson
My act is sort of improvisational. I have a skeleton in my head, but no fat or skin on it.
~ Paula Poundstone
Perfect love was that kind of love that made no sense but made everything else make sense somehow. It was raw and unscripted, turbulent and slightly unpredictable.
~ Laura Miller
I love 'Talking Smack.' It is so much fun. We just literally go out there and say whatever we want. Somehow, it's never planned, but somehow I end up bickering with Daniel Bryan every single time.
~ Alexa Bliss
I enjoy reality TV shows. Watching them, and appearing in them. There's a spontaniety involved in the unscripted shows that I like to be involved with.
~ Traci Bingham
The worst thing to happen at the Oscars would be if nothing happened. You want something unscripted, something to riff on, something kinda out there.
~ Seth MacFarlane
Twitter wasn't planned. It just happened.
~ Fred Wilson
Real life is often sloppy, tragic, ugly, embarrassing, unglamorous, and not made for TV.
~ Jane Velez-Mitchell
Journalists undoubtedly have a duty to push, cajole, and aggressively maneuver around campaign handlers in order for the public to see a candidate unscripted.
~ Richard Grenell
I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.
~ Dane Cook
Nothing that you see on 'Indian Idol' is ever staged or planned.
~ Anu Malik
What seemed enticing about the seventies was that life experiences were still unscripted, and that no one had figured out how to give the people what they wanted before the people even knew what that was.
~ Chuck Klosterman