Quotes About Spontaneity

I've never been good at improvising.

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.

I'm really good at improvising on stage, so if I'd forget a step, I'll just make up something. And the rest of the dancers would be like... what is she doing!? It always looked like they have forgotten the step, so I got away with it!

The idea of just improvising and riffing can sometimes be at the expense of story.

I'm used to sort of improvising a lot when I do my comedies.

When I feel like improvising, I always improvise on the guitar, never on the lute. It's as natural to me as breathing.

If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!

I'm an impulse buyer. I don't really go out with a list.

We were so limited on time for 'No Burden' that we didn't get to overthink anything. There was no going for the perfect take, or even going for three takes. It was kind of nice because what you're hearing is our first impulse.

People do all sorts of things impulsively and follow those impulses into strange places.

Both my best and my worst habit is that I'm very impulsive.

I completely follow my gut and do what I like doing. I have become impulsive in a good way. I am taking creative risks as an actor.

In our case, we have no script. So the only people we can work with are people who have been working with us in the past, and they know we are going to do something; it's kind of a trust.

I can do what I want, when I want. I want to go to this place, I pick up and go. It's nice. I've just never been inclined to do anything that's too crazy. But I still have to work, you know. Some days I don't feel like going to the studio. But I still have to.

When I was a kid, everything was so unplanned, my parents were so erratic, and my world was so inconsistent.

When I was coming up, a freestyle wasn't a freestyle unless everything was completely improvised, in-the-moment and right there, and you had to incorporate various elements of what was going on in the room on the day.

Chaos can be incredibly creative.

I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.

A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth.

I want to go with the one I love. I do not want to calculate the cost. I do not want to think about whether it's good. I do not want to know whether he loves me. I want to go with whom I love...

Just set up the board as best you can. We'll play with whatever we got.

I'm going to do what any self-respecting English major would do: pull something out of my ass.