Quotes About Improvisation

I have a lot of experience with making fake helmets out of foil.

I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.

With a brush you have control. The paint goes on the brush and you make the mark. From experience you know exactly what will happen. With the squeegee you lose control.

Yes, for me audio-visual performance has its roots in my experience working as an improvising musician and composer.

Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way

A general is like a writer who wants to write a play, or a book, but whom the book itself, with the unexpected options that it reveals at one point, the impasse it presents at another, causes to deviate extensively from his preconceived plan.

You improvised." "Yes. The one advantage we had, which is a thing I brought to the enterprise, was the understanding that the plan was not the goal. The goal was the goal, and we were going to get it however we could. And if it meant changing our plans, sometimes in the middle of executing them, then we would.

It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.

Bleedin' like a son-of-a-bitch, he said. Well, I can stop that. He urinated on the ground, picked up a handful of the resulting mud, and plastered it over the wound.

I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.

No matter how many plans you make or how much in control you are, life is always winging it.

If life is just a stage, then we are all running around ad-libbing, with absolutely no clue what the plot is. Maybe that's why we don't know whether it's a comedy or tragedy.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

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

Hell, when I was growing up, I could make a meal out of a package of Top Ramen and a bottle of Windex.

Recipe? Recipe? We don' need no stinkin' recipe.

In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom.

Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I'm blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

You have a lot more freedom to explore and improvise in a Canadian film, which you might not have when there's 13 different production companies that all have serious equity investments.

All the words are already there when you're singing onstage, it's fantastic. You can lose yourself in what you've created. You're controlling this freedom.

As an actor, there was that freedom of not having to worry about lights or marks or other people. It was just going out there and having fun with the character.

If you have a good idea, open your mouth and say something else.

I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned.