Improvisation Quotes · Page 7

[on his use of tracking shots throughout his 50-year career] There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.

— Allan Dwan

I come from a background where I like collaboration and improv. I think that it is important.

— Darren Boyd

While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you…

— Shelley Berman

In essence, I feel I'm more jazz guitar player because I write vehicles geared for improvisation.

— Allan Holdsworth

The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what…

— Paul Merton

Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.

— John Dewey

Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.

— David Pye

When you try to go back and watch improv on tape, it almost never feels as good as it did when a…

— Chris Gethard

“Ready-made phrases and the ritual of etiquette were unknown to him; his thoughtfulness was pure improvisation, and it resembled the little inventions…

— Simone de Beauvoir

My advice to you: live in the moment. Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation.…

— Jane Lynch

Improvisation has to do with exploring something like two brothers in a room together. You find out things about situations by discovering…

— Mike Nichols

Our lives are a sequence of things. When we're alive, they're continuing, just as my words now are an improvisation. So the…

— Simon McBurney

I often tell my students that you can't worry about the end of an improv scene because the end is not up…

— Mark Sutton

The main thing about improvising is listening so if something happens that wasn't expected and you know your character, you know what…

— Vince Vaughn

Any education system that only memorizes things creates robots and will never produce Nobel laureates. Any education system that only emphasizes improvisation…

— John Medina

As a writer, I use improv to write. Exploring characters and stories through improv and sitting at the computer and thinking about…

— Natasha Rothwell

Having been an actor, I always want to leave room for the actors to find their comfort zone, so I don't like…

— Eric Balfour

You have to study composition to understand that things can be done backwards and forwards and upside down, inverted, but it's mainly…

— Terry Bozzio

When you do improv, you're everything. You're a performer, writer, and director, because you're moving the scene in the direction you want…

— Rob Reiner

We would do improvisation together. And that in a way, had almost a "student-film side" where we'd be sitting there with Robert…

— Jeff Bridges

When I create I don't think in technical or mathematical terms until the idea is formulated Musical composition is formulated in improvisation.…

— Aaron Zigman

There is indeed a level of improvisation where we can distort and shuffle the music patterns, samples, and loops in each phase…

— Thomas Bangalter

Music making features real-time creation, real-time decisions and actions. It's basically improvisation, which is the stuff of everyday life. In the realm…

— Vijay Iyer

“I have a lot of problems with fifteen-minute jazz-funk jams as well. I don’t care about instrumental prowess. I don’t care about…

— Matt Thorne

One thing my old improv teacher taught me is when you're not in the improv scene and you're standing back watching your…

— Brendan Hunt

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

— Jan Garbarek

I love when people improvise as long as they're great improvisers, what I mean by that is people can improvise within their…

— Scot Armstrong

As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.

— Billy Crystal

If you're a good improviser, you improvise well enough that people think that you're doing a sketch.

— Amy Poehler

Perfect retention. I don't think I could do that-I've never disciplined myself to do it. I suppose a lot of it is…

— George Shearing

Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone--beginners, children, and non-musicians…

— Derek Bailey

There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

— Henri Matisse

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.

— Christian Marclay

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

— Jonathan Winters

Maybe it's just my improv and sketch background, but I'm a lot more comfortable in a group. I like sharing focus and…

— Jason Mantzoukas

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

— Flea

Improvisation is not a presentational form, except in small doses, or as a game. It's a tool.

— Bernard Sahlins

Improv training allows you to get out of your head a little bit and take more risks, which is something I would…

— Allison Tolman

Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made—which is something no ‘normal’ person would do.

— Keith Johnstone

Sometimes people have this notion that improvisation is simply intuitive leaping into the unknown.

— Kurt Elling