Artistic Quote by Lucien Bourjeily

Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.

— Carl Reiner

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 you hear.

— Paul Merton

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

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

— Bernard Sahlins

I don't understand why people don't use improvisation, especially in comedy films, but also, for me, you get more naturalism, and that's why I…

— Alice Lowe

Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up.…

— Amy Poehler

Improvisation is the art of becoming sound. It is the only art in which a human being can and must become the music he…

— Alvin Curran

I always say that improvisation is the utterance of one's spirit, and it dictates your life experience, and that's how you find your concepts…

— Dianne Reeves

I think improvisation is a technique and a tool. I think that even the best of them fail most of the time, and in…

— Bernard Sahlins

Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.

— Cecil Taylor

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

— Ivan Reitman

Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can…

— Derek Bailey