Cameron Mackintosh Quotes

Think on your toes, use what's around you, and come up with something organic and fun.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

There is no facet of my professional life that doesn't require or request improvisation.

When you start with next to nothing, all you've got is a lot of thought, a lot of innovation, figuring new ways to do things without using a lot of money.

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

My personal style comes from jugaad, a Hindi word meaning doing more with less.

You are not always going to be able to knock it and run. You are going to have to use the other foot, mix things up, use the brain.

I apply the term 'creativity' broadly... it's problem solving. We are all faced with problems, and we have to address them and think of something new, and that's where creativity comes in.

Creativity was born out of necessity because I didn't have many things to play with.

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

I think with a lot of filmmakers, their first film is their best film because they had to think on their feet and solve problems with ingenuity.

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

The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works.

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

Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.

It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.

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.

It's such a great thing to work with people and not have a plan.

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

There's always some room for improvisation.

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.