Quotes About Improvisation

Who wanted to make lemonade from lemons, when you could make perfectly good lemon grenades?

Who wanted to make lemonade from lemons, when you could make perfectly good lemonade grenades?

I learned how to make something out of almost nothing, instead of nothing out of something.

There is no facet of my professional life that doesn't require or request improvisation.

In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.

People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

I don't do research. I never have.

When I was young, I first went into the theatre which opened up across from my house. My mum and dad put me in there, not to become an actor or anything but to get rid of my shyness, which was so bad, to the point it was painful. My time there was all about encouragement and improvisation.

When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards.

What you see in my script may not be what's in the film. Sometimes it's a very scary thing, when I have to shoot in the morning and the scene's not good enough, and it's only me there, and there's no signal to even call the others and say, think of a better line.

Ram Gopal Varma saw my pictures and called me for a meeting. He signed me on to play Vishnu Manchu's wife in one of his movies. He did not give me dialogues, instead he asked, 'What will you do if you were Vishnu's wife and this is the scene?' He explained the scene and I gave my inputs.

In 'Silence,' there was no improvisation at all; really, you're dealing with a script and a 17th century way of speaking.

When I was a kid, I'd create my own movies at home. I'd record myself doing a scene, then stop the camera, change my clothes, and do a scene as another character. It sounds silly, but I just loved to tell stories.

What Paul and I do is not fashionable - it's a load of silly characters mucking about.

With 'Silver Linings,' I didn't feel - I was thinking of certain things, but I just said, 'Let me go with it.' You have to know what you're doing, where you're going with the scenes, and I put a lot of work into that. But when you're out there, at the same time you gotta be ready for anything.

It's not easy to play in a framework that requires simplicity and to tastefully find ways to interject the kind of freedom that we have in playing jazz.

Improvisation is not a wild scramble at the last minute. You are not pulling plans out of thin air. Improvisation is the payoff of scrupulous preparation and drill.

Remember, as artists we don't know diddly. We're winging it every day. For us to try to second-guess our Muse the way a hack second-guesses his audience is condescension to heaven. It's blasphemy and sacrilege.

Remember: There's no such thing as a mistake in the kitchen, just a new recipe waiting to be discovered!)

I'm mostly faking it, but I'm moving forward. That's what we're supposed to do, right? Nothing stays the same.

That's a lot. he whispered It is. I want you to be prepared. There's no preparing for that. He kissed her again.. I'm going to have to wing it.

Y Jon sonríe, porque eso es, al fin y al cabo, lo más importante en la vida. El noventa por ciento del trabajo es estar junto a quien tienes que estar. El otro diez por ciento, se improvisa sobre la marcha.

Si te dan papel pautado, utiliza el otro lado.

La versión que el veterano improvisó era tan real como puede ser un dinosaurio visto a través del ojo de la cerradura de la cueva antediluviana: los pedazos muy precisos y detallados; el animal, desconocido, hipotético.