Keith Johnstone

Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be ‘wrong’, which is what our education encourages us to believe.

— Keith Johnstone

An artist who is inspired is being obvious. He’s not making any decisions, he’s not weighing one idea against another. He’s accepting…

— Keith Johnstone

In a normal education everything is designed to suppress spontaneity, but I wanted to develop it.

— Keith Johnstone

Where if you're in a universe where you have to accept ideas, you'll never know if your partner wanted the garbage you're…

— Keith Johnstone

Good impro can make you laugh, we love it, but soon the content is forgotten. Good scenes from The Life Game stay…

— Keith Johnstone

When you want to have entertainment, it must be a waste of time. I don't like that. I don't like improvisation being…

— Keith Johnstone

The improviser has to understand that his first skill lies in releasing his partner’s imagination.

— Keith Johnstone

Wherever you go it's the same fear. And the same protective devices. There is one big error I think and partly my…

— Keith Johnstone

“These ‘offer-block-accept’ games have a use quite apart from actor training. People with dull lives often think that their lives are dull…

— Keith Johnstone

I don't even think you should tell the audience you're improvising. It's like an apology in case it's bad : 'we're just…

— Keith Johnstone