Mark Waid Quotes

Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn't find words.

I always have a plan, but then I'm always ready to throw the plan out, and everyone's ready to make a radical left turn if necessary.

When they came to you for your line, you had to be ready and you had to get it in one.

I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.

We don't know what we're doing. We don't have a plan. We don't sit down and calculate it.

In the military we plan for the worst case, because we have learned that if you do not, you will be surprised.

The best plan is to have no plan.

I haven't planned a reaction on anything... If you do, you've screwed up.

I've had some shows where I really plan out what I'm going to say. Then I've had other shows where I'm like, 'Take a sip of the Ole Smoky Moonshine and just let it be natural and cross your fingers that you say the right things.'

I grew up military but have met very few women that have a mission plan for when things don't work out. I attack everything like that.

I think the hardest thing that, historically, the industry may have relied upon is that we can't control weather, we can't control air traffic control, and use that at the end of the day as an excuse. Things do happen - we know they happen. We don't exactly know when they are going to happen, but we should definitely be prepped.

If Plan A isn't working, I have Plan B, Plan C, and even Plan D.

Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I often think of the worst case scenario. I call it 'the eaten by wolves factor.' If I do something, what's the most terrible thing that could happen? Would I be eaten by wolves? One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist, is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. There are a lot of things I don't worry about, because I have a plan in place if they do.

It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.

Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.

We haven't got a plan so nothing can go wrong!

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

I never wanted to show up and just say, "Okay, what are we doing today? Let's wing it!"

I improvise whenever I feel it's important, or whenever I think that something's there. It's nice to have a script that's so well-written that I don't have to improvise. I mean, I used to have to re-write whole movies; this is kind of nice.

It is better to have a bad plan than no plan.

Do I really look like a guy with a plan?

Improvisation is really not so much remembering things. And this is what I do when I play. I forget things. When I go on the stage, I want my mind to be a blank, so that I can - things can come into me without my knowing where they came from.

Mark and jay Duplass really like to improvise. Even if we beg them to go back to the script, they invariably ask us to go "off the rails," as they like to call it. It's just the way they work. You get a full written script. And it's really, really, really good, so that's why it's kind of peculiar that they always want you to improvise, because if I wrote something that good, I would want everyone to stick to the dialogue that was written.

I usually go in ahead of time, like at a rehearsal, or a meeting, and tell them, "It may appear that I'm going to go haywire, but I'm not." I always map out what I'm going to do. Still, a lot of it is improvised.

You know, you can try and plan [filming] as much as you want, but you get there on game day and you get thrown a curve ball, I guess, hey, the game plan goes out the window. You've got to adapt.