Quotes About Spontaneity

And last but not least, go for it. Go wherever you can afford to go with whomever you can get to go with you.

Why anyone needed to hold her breath above water was beyond me, but when I make things up, I rarely have a filter.

Like what?Glass?Drugs?Oregano? Come on, sweetheart. Lighten up and have some fun.

It is important for us to realize that emphasis on conformity and the fear of spontaneous living can have an effect almost as devastating as the totalitarian's deliberate assault on the mind . . . . Trained into conformity the child may well grow up into an adult who welcomes with relief the authoritarian demands of a totalitarian leader. It is the welcome repetition of an old pattern that can be followed without investment of a new emotional energy.14

When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.

Some of the best songs I've written, I've written in 10 minutes.

If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great.

Actually, what I miss are people corpsing on stage.

You can't be serious all the time. You got to mix it up.

I'm one of those guys that gets bored with things pretty fast, so I've got to keep it mixed up.

I like to record something pretty much as soon as I have an idea for a song, but I'm on so many buses, I have to record on my mobile.

We make decisions based on what we feel in the moment.

I wrote 'On Second Thought' in five minutes in the back of my bus going through Montana.

If I knew my schedule a month ahead, I'd be so bored.

I take any project on a month or two at a time. Meaning, I don't think too far ahead.

My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.

Some days I work out, some days I walk around the city. I don't know... It just depends on the mood, really.

I'm not looking for any particular genre or role because I will pick up a role based on my mood and instinct.

I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.

I always say, my set is like building a brick wall that all the jokes are the bricks but the improv is the mortar. You piece it all together and have a certain flow to it.

I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'

Catherine O'Hara's one of the most amazing, wonderful actresses, but she's an amazing improviser. She really is.

I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.

Being open to what's happening in front of you is the most important thing about being a director. To allow the magic to exist and to be light enough on your feet to harness it as it's happening. That's what makes cinema interesting.