Quotes About Imagination

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.

I am obsessed with improv.

I saturated myself with the improv community.

Once we got the scene down, we were told to improv.

There's a lot of improv in 'Girls'.

Improv is such a huge part of my background, and a huge part of character discovery is really being inside the character and trying to think through them without the limitations of the script.

So much of improv can be really long, and that's kind of what makes it funny.

I took an improv class, and after my first class, I was like, 'Oh, I just want to do something like this. This is super fun.'

As a writer, I use improv to write. Exploring characters and stories through improv and sitting at the computer and thinking about what this character would say or do helps me creatively.

Looking back, when my cousins and I were kids, we'd put together these little skits - these 10-minute improv scenes. I didn't really understand what I was doing - that I was writing these mini-sketches and acting - but we were all totally into it.

You have to have an idea of what you need to do, what needs to be fixed, what can be improved, what we should now imagine together which we didn't previously imagine. And having thought of it, decide to go it. And that's the government's role.

All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.

We did very little improvisation on camera, and once in a while we did.

There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.

I've always been into improvisation.

I love improvisation. It's quite exciting.

What I love about jazz is the improvisation, the fact that you never know what's going to happen next.

It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.

With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.

Many times I'll improvise it, which isn't done a lot in movies or commercials. But a lot of my commercials are improvised.

I like to improvise so much live because I get bored playing the same thing over again. It's like the kid at school that already knows all the answers so doodles all over the paper. I do that a lot live.

When you're writing, you're putting thought into what you want to express, and then you come up with it - it comes to you. When you're improvising, it's the same thing. You're writing. You just say it out loud right then, instead of saying, 'You think this might work?'

We're improvising a lot of this, which amazes people.

In the U.S., it's like, you start with a great script, and then on set - not everybody, but definitely in the Apatow group - you go off, and you're improvising on camera. So while you're on camera, you're saying things that no one else has ever heard before during the actual take.