Tracy Letts Quotes

I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.

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

The shows weren't organized at all. They just happened.

I'm not sure there's a method to my madness.

I write [music] as a sow piddles.

My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.

I never really know what I'm going to write next until it comes to me. So we'll just have to see what happens.

I don't plan, because everything goes against my plans anyways. There's absolutely no point in planning anything. I'm just enjoying the moment. I'm meeting with a whole lot of people - casting directors, directors, agents. I have things going on everywhere, but I have no solid plans.

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

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 sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.

I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.

I wish to God I was organized enough to tell you that, 'Yes, there will be 14 books, and this one will go here, and that one will go there'... but to be honest, I hardly know what I'm going to do when I get up in the morning.

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.

There's a big difference between me and other YouTubers - a lot of them have big, concrete plans. I'm still this weird chicken with my head cut off. I don't know what I want to do next and haven't known that since I started.

In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.

People laugh at me because I don't even know what I'm doing tomorrow.

No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with some ideas and then it takes itself somewhere.

When I put my brush to canvas, I never know what I'm going to paint. It's like when you're walking down the street with your hands in your pockets, humming a tune, you don't know what you'll be humming five minutes from now.

In using chance operations, the mind is enriched.

The kind of writing that matters most to me is something you don't learn about. It's constantly coming out of what I don't know rather than what I do know.

I'm just sort of making it up as I go along.

It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing until the day of.