Diane Kruger Quotes

As producers, you always have to go with the flow and be ready to embrace change, and drama and whatever happens.

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

Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust.

When everything else breaks down, I don't hesitate to roam out of the pocket and do the boogaloo.

The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down.

One of the most important things a person can learn to do is to make something out of whatever he or she happens to have at the moment.

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

I just find things that work and embellish them.

We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.

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

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

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

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.'

I always try to take the unexpected things and make them work for me.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

With each job that you're given an opportunity to do, you're asked to use new parts of yourself and to figure the play out with other tools that you perhaps didn't use with the last show.

It comes down to the difference between what you were planning to do and what life throws at you and you have to end up doing. The one who knows how to improvise is the one who comes out ahead.

I can operate in half-a-song format.

In TV, I did scripts that were not well-written, and I learned how to make bad material okay. That's a hard thing to do; you can learn bad habits, but you can also learn to find something in anything.

It's always fun to improvise.

I had a lot of learning on my feet.

You have to be able to adjust with the moment, whether it's an injury, a result.

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 work in response to the limitations of any situation and in relationship to what's possible.

You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.