Satyajit Ray Quotes

Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.

They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that.

I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas.

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.

The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.

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

You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.

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

Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.

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

If I start planning then that's dangerous because then I have a target that I'm blinkered towards and I won't listen to the warning signs quite so much. I'd rather be in shape and then look around and say there's a race next week and jump into that than have it planned.

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

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

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

I'm not a planner. I like to try something different, to just see what happens.

If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.

I like to make an outline or cards and then utterly ignore them.

I just want to keep doing a bunch of stuff that I don't really plan. I'm so fortunate and lucky that people keep giving me these platforms. Because I'm kind of a crazy person.

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.

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

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

It may seem like improv because it flows quite naturally, and a little bit of leeway for improvisation is good, but you have to be judicious with it. So it's good, but sometimes people deify it. You can't improvise your way out of a paper hat.

If you over-plan, you close the door on possibilities.