Remo D'Souza Quotes

I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other than - I'm just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I'm just going to do it.

There is spontaneity to my work.

The first time I started choreographing was in the dark, in my living room, with the lights completely out, to some popular music on the radio. I put the radio on full blast and I started moving. I didn't know what it looked like. I didn't want to see it... I had to start in the dark.

I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.

It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.

Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it this way twice. I've studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan.

I'm such a huge fan, and I've done classes of all Lady Gaga music. And she's just someone who evokes freedom and love for her fans and passion in what she does. Lady Gaga, I'll take you out for a salad anytime.

Sometimes I think your intellect can get in your way as an actor or an artist. When you come from a world of improv and comedy, you're able to let it flicker and fall out.

I like to express myself inside of the work that is given, and I let the dancers do the same.

Dance is a great way to express yourself.

Dance keeps me going, and it gives me the energy to remain active in cinema.

The one good thing about dance is that if you are truly yourself, then it's all good.

The most important thing is to keep creating and following my inklings as they come into being and acting on them.

People go, 'What do you want to do?' What do you want to do? What are you feeling? Going into a shoot not fully knowing what I want to do—that excitement, that thing that happens, is just so powerful and makes such great pictures.

I was used to dancing, but only when someone told you what to do. So in the nightclub I was all over the place, I combined everything. Street dance, modern dance, a bit of jazz and ballet, I was Twyla Tharp, I was Alvin Ailey, I was Michael Jackson. I didn't care, I was free.

I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.

If I can't dance, I don't care if my dances are ever done again!

Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.

I would just stand there puzzled, then realize this would be a great place to make a show.

I never work out my leads. Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous. If someone says, 'That was good; play that again,' I'm not able to do it.

You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote 'Search.' There was no carefully designed work plan. There was no theory that I was out to prove.

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.