Editing Quote by David Antin

All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.

— Martin Short

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another…

— Alan Arkin

Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very tricky.

— Julie Delpy

In Jazz, improvisation isn't a matter of just making any ol' thing up. Jazz, like any language, has its own grammer and vocabulary. There's…

— Wynton Marsalis

Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.

— Carl Reiner

During improvisations, I'll hear people bringing back up details from something I heard about at breakfast or something somebody was saying that they were…

— Joe Swanberg

There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

— Henri Matisse

Dialogue is like jazz. Dialogue is creative.

— Sam Shepard

Improvisation in the jazz sense - like the business sense - is not formless. It is built on a skill set. Jazz, for example,…

— John Kao

Improvisation is a compositional method.

— Evan Parker

I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool.

— Ivan Reitman

Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.

— Ahmad Jamal