India Arie Quotes

It's much easier to work with an unknown.

I like to think that we've got a plan, so let's stick to it. That said, once we've stuck to it, we're allowed as much improvisation as anyone cares to indulge themselves in.

I'm gonna play this game the way I want to. It might be serious, it might be a comedy, it might be a dramedy, it might be variety, it might be a talk show, whatever. There's no box.

I don't understand why one should be one thing or the other. Writing, to me, is writing is writing. It should be a flexible tool. Whatever skills I have, have to work for me; I won't be dictated by them.

The fun stuff comes when someone is not so strict on sticking to the script. You're allowed the spontaneity, and great moments can happen.

I always say don't make plans, make options.

My style is that I have no style.

When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because there's no bible.

We try to write things that can be interpreted on lots of different levels. There's not a right way or a wrong way... people can adventure a little.

Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.

We've always said that our band is pretty much an open system and there's no rules governing anything... so who knows what the future will hold?

I like to leave a little room to innovate and change things around while I'm working.

I'm not someone who feels like I have to do it the same way. I never feel restricted. It all should grow out of different moments and if it goes completely different that's how it should go.

I don't really have a certain format that I go by.

I'm really a big believer in working with people. It's challenging for me to come into already integrated brands and find a way where I can put my own flair on it.

When you work with an actor and then you discover new things that are better, I think you gotta be free to be able to go with the new things that you're finding. I think that's very important. I have a strong idea when I go to shoot a movie but I also love to discover things when I'm on set as well.

I can critique the bad; I can take the good, and I can add whatever I want.

A hunter that is worth his salt does not catch game because he sets his traps, or because he knows the hunting routines of his prey, but because he himself has no routines. This is his advantage. He is not at all like the animals he is after, fixed by heavy routines and predictable quirks; he is free, fluid, unpredictable

You have to have non-traditional ways of collaborating. But better is relative.

I like to let each thing happen - direct it a little consciously, maybe - but just kind of follow the vibrations I get in each particular circumstance. We don't plan theatrics. We hardly ever know which set we'll play.

I don't really like to know what I'm going to do before I do it.

I probably have the most fun on projects where there's some room to improvise.

Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.

I'm not against Twitter or Facebook. I'm not against anything. Never say never.