Jan Garbarek Quotes

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

The slightest thing can ruin a scene, but you must be willing to take chances.

Play is experimenting with chance.

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.

The game is a game, and things happen, and you can't always execute your plan as perfectly as you'd like to.

I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did; that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered.

I like uncertainty in roles, and I like uncertainty in art, really.

Much of what we're going to try will not work, and much of what does work will do so for unanticipated reasons.

So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done.

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

I've tried to force a solo before, but sometimes it's like, 'That thing don't really fit, man!'

An actor can never plan. You never know what can work in your favour or not and then maybe the whole dynamics can change.

I had no idea if 'No Roots' was going to work or not.

It's good to plan, but you just never know.

The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way you strategize and plan.

The nature of improvisation is you don't know what's going to happen.

Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.

If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.

Nothing works until it does. Nobody knows anything. You don't know what people are going to respond to. People are always surprised by stuff.

We are comfortable with formulas, but the best happens when the formula doesn't work.

Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.