Quotes About Improvisation

To me, blues is more of a feel and a vibe, rather than sitting there and saying, 'Well, I'm gonna play bluesy now.'

I don't really write. I'm an on-the-spot type of person. This beat, let's listen to it; let's vibe. And then I'll do a melody, and then we'll go back and do it.

A lot of times, for videogames, you get almost no time to prepare with a script. You've got a director that's going line for line, filling you in on what's happening, and some games are even less than that.

Miss Marva's driving technique was at best creative, and at worst she was an accident waiting to happen.

But to me it sounded like someone throwing a roll of paper towels and a can of frosting into an oven and saying, "You know, I think there's a good chance of this turning into a cake.

I cannot emphasize enough that I do not start with a plan or agenda and mechanically manipulate characters and events to carry it out. I set characters in motion, and let them teach me what the book is.

The two of us with our scrappy motor and no idea what was going to happen next, a Persian version of the Blues Brothers scene – there's 106 miles to Qom, we've got a full tank of benzin, half a pack of pistachios, it's sunny out, and I'm wearing a hijab. Bezan berim!

I knew I didn't have much of a chance of getting away from that swarm of fae piranha, but it was an infinitely larger chance than I would have if I stayed in the car and burned to death. Hell's bells, what I wouldn't give to have my shield bracelet. Or my old staff. I didn't even have an umbrella.

The plan is insane," Ehren said. "You are insane." He looked around the inside of the tent. "I'll need some pants.

Charity was like the MacGyver of the kitchen. She could whip up a five-course meal for twelve from an egg, two spaghetti noodles, some household chemicals, and a stick of chewing gum. Molly… Molly once burned my egg. My boiled egg. I don't know how.

I would have to call a cab. It wasn't the most heroic way to ride to the rescue, but walkers can't be choosers.

My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.

Why did I think that this improvisation could never end? If I had seen that it could, what would I have done differently? What would he?

In a time of disaster you could baste newspapers to both sides of a cotton blanket and end up with a warm quilt. She knew a lot of things about disaster. She could manage.

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Keep learning, improvising and become great from the experiences of yesterday.

So imagine: Dungeons and Dragons [is] a table filled with artists, whether they're painters, whether they're actors, whether they're poets … - whatever they are, they are able to live in this world of imagination.

Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves.

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.

I don't often get a chance to have a frying pan in the show.

Skill is a function of chance. It's an intuitive best-use of chance situations.

There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance.