Quotes About Improvisation

The mind does different things in performance, and conscious thought sometimes takes a backseat.

With the show itself, we try to think of new and different ways to make each other laugh, while enjoying what we're doing.

I don't plan my dinners at the beginning of the week.

I don't much like being directed. I enjoy being allowed to play.

For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.

I love working with actors who will just go, 'Oh O.K., let's try it and see where it goes,' and 'Let's see what we can discover.'

Growing up, I always loved working with people. I love playing with people and having that moment of discovering something different. I believe in the magic of what music is.

I've got a lot of friends with whom I discuss jazz.

I have worked in films where we just put on the make-up and go in for a shoot without any discussions and even a talk with the director.

My drumming is always an experiment.

I like to experiment when it comes to music.

For me, music is about experimentation.

When we started there was this element of these experiments we were doing where we weren't really sure how the music would play out because the music was all on different players.

Acting is constant exploration.

The way I write is very much without kind of a goal. I have something I'm interested in and then I decide I'm going to explore it. I don't know where the characters are going to go, I don't know what the movie is going to do or what the screenplay is going to do. For me, that's the way to keep it alive.

I like to explore sounds.

I just express myself in any way I feel is appropriate at the moment.

But I was always comedic and would tell stories and use a lot of expressions.

There's always an extra 10% you give when it's live as suppose to do a pre-recorded show.

With comedic actors, you can write one joke or two jokes, sample dialogue, and they have the capacity to extrapolate.

I mostly do faces and sounds. That's what I do. Comedy doesn't have to be art.

The passion to explore and not be afraid to fail - that's something I will always attribute to the Groundlings.

We would play songs live on stage, and then we'd watch their reaction we were receiving immediately, if people were dancing and singing along. If they weren't, then we'd go into the dressing rooms of the different NBA teams that we were playing in their arenas, and we'd change the songs right there.

Sometimes I'll write without the guitar or the piano, but most of the time I'll be playing and just improvising some words. And when I get something that sounds good, a line with a story in it, I'll try and tease it out and figure out where the story is going.