Ifs Quote by John Travolta

I use improvisation as a writing tool to help produce material that goes into a script, but a well-crafted script shouldn't sound scripted, and…

— Steve Coogan

Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.

— Carl Reiner

It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.

— Sam Rockwell

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

— Ivan Reitman

When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are prepared totally.

— Sydney Pollack

Mark and jay Duplass really like to improvise. Even if we beg them to go back to the script, they invariably ask us to…

— Amanda Peet

It's a very collaborative environment [making The Office]. We always do takes of how it's scripted, but then we also mix it up a…

— Ed Helms

When you write the script, you're home in a room by yourself, and you're writing, and there's no connection with the real performing world.…

— Woody Allen

I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool. It's not so much that the actors get to say…

— Ivan Reitman

If you have a great script and great dialogue, you don't need to improvise.

— Catherine O'Hara

The script is like music to me. I approach it like it's a musical piece and I hear how it's supposed to sound when…

— Rob Reiner

I've worked with genius performers. Sometimes they created great work with a bad script... but not often. Play it safe: write well.

— Jerry Juhl