[on his use of tracking shots throughout his 50-year career] There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation. — Allan Dwan Copy Share Image
Perfect retention. I dont think I could do that-Ive never disciplined myself to do it.I suppose a lot of it is a… — George Shearing Copy Share Image
To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation. — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I moved to Chicago in the early 1990s and I studied improvisation there. I learned some rules that I try to apply… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The… — Derek Bailey Copy Share Image
I really think that martial arts and music are very close to each other and both require a lot of focus and… — Hiromi Copy Share Image
I'm not a standup. I didn't start off as a writer, I learned to write through improvisation, and so that's the part… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
I have a variety of ways that I make music, but I'm working with the Thingamajigs in a particular way, which is:… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Hendrix was back there with a few of the others who were like my training wheels ... hearing him as a teenager… — Junior Brown Copy Share Image
The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation. — Cornelius Cardew Copy Share Image
Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality… — Michael Snow Copy Share Image
You do stuff that gets a reaction and you think 'that's a winner' and then it never sees the light of day.… — Rafe Spall Copy Share Image
I knew Steve Carell because of Little Miss Sunshine, so I felt very comfortable with him. Maybe he always does it to… — Beth Grant Copy Share Image
Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas. — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
I've never been a big fan of improvisation, because I think you appreciate the process and the cleverness of it more than… — Alan Thicke Copy Share Image
A lot of improvisation ends up being about just thinking outside of the box in the scene. It's not improvisation as much… — Jason Sudeikis Copy Share Image
I think I'm going to venture into the futuristic, semi sci-fi love story land, but still in my style of improvisation. — Drake Doremus Copy Share Image
Sometimes it depends on the actor or the actress. Sometimes they demand a lot of rehearsals. Sometimes they don't. Making movies is… — Alejandro Amenabar Copy Share Image
I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool. It's not so much that the actors get… — Ivan Reitman Copy Share Image
A major component of jazz is improvisation, which forces you to stay in the moment because you never know what will be… — John Densmore Copy Share Image