Thomas Kail Quotes

It is necessary to develop a strategy that utilizes all the physical conditions and elements that are directly at hand. The best strategy relies upon an unlimited set of responses.

You gotta be able to change worlds.

It's much easier to work with an unknown.

Once, right before a show, I realized I'd forgotten shoes. I didn't want to wear my flip-flops onstage because I could trip. I ended up going barefoot, which actually worked out because it became my 'thing.'

Every day is different; you never know what to expect, and you have to be ready to pivot on a dime.

If you're good at what you do regardless of what is thrown in front of you, you will make it work.

I feel like I can adapt to any defense.

I feel it's important for anyone to adapt; you never know what kind of situation you will walk into.

I have an imagination that will go in any direction it is prodded. I pride myself on being able to become enthusiastic about anything: If you tell me to write a screenplay about cucumber farms, I'll swallow hard, and in 48 hours, I'll be in love with cucumber farms.

I'm pretty prepared for anything. You could shove me out there in any situation - I've done it.

I feel no matter who I'm going against that I can get open in a number of ways.

I can do something with almost anything I see. Everything is still interesting to me.

Adapt your techniques to an idea, not an idea to your techniques.

I don't care what anything was designed to do, I care about what it can do.

All day long, I'm creative, and the second I get a little tired of any given medium, I just shut that area down and go to the next room. I just go do something else.

The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.

I do believe we're all adaptable, and you're probably more adaptable than you realize.

I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.

I often think I am a better person because I lived for many years of my life with a flashlight. I have developed skills I did not think were possible - bathing with a cup of water by candlelight, for instance, and writing a story with a headlamp on.

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

I've had a bit of experience at lots and lots of different arenas as it were, some of them completely creative, some of them quite technical. The interesting thing is, is that I found that the technical arenas actually are also very creative or can be very creative.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.

Being multi-disciplined is always a good thing.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.