Quotes About Spontaneity

Writing for me is not a premeditated act. It just happens - characters keep coming out of nowhere and doing things I never expected them to do. The most persistent and most productive of these has been Paul Christopher, whom I didn't expect to see again after he appeared in 'The Miernik Dossier.'

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

I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

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

As for discipline and rules, I confess, I've never been good with either.

Kids are disorganized.

If we know we're just going to have sex and then ditch the guy, it can be fun.

My best experiences with movies have come when I didn't know what to see.

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

My expressions are just natural and I can't control them.

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

The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

Comedy is not something that a person can fake or learn how to do.

One falls in love without thinking!

However spontaneous I hope a photograph will look, I always put a lot of thought into how I can make it happen. The very best pictures are the most relaxed, so a lot of fussing around technically can completely break the spell, and everyone freezes up with nerves.

You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.

The first day I met Peep we made a song without question. Never in my life have I connected with someone like that. Literally the first day we met we recorded 'White Tee' and shot the video.

When you are young, you can do anything, everything, and nothing at the same time. You don't have that kind of judgment; you just eat... like teenagers that need to feed. After a while, you know exactly what you are looking for, that sense of analysis comes to you when you start to use your brain.

I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.

Sonu Nigam, Farah Khan and I don't have a teleprompter and neither do we plan about what we say. If we break into a argument or kiss and make up, it's all real.

I don't storyboard. I guess it dates back to my days in live television, where there was no possibility of storyboarding and everything was shot right on the spot - on the air, as we say - at the moment we were transmitting. I prefer to be open to what the actors do, how they interact to the given situation.

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.