Improvisational Performance Quotes

I've done lots of improv things but not a whole movie.

I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't just play whatever comes into your head; you have to be very deliberate about what you do.

Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect the creation of that which is being witnessed. And perhaps because of that possibility the audience for improvisation has a degree of intimacy with the music that is not achieved in any other situation.

I loved the idea [of improvisation], but I'd never taken any classes or practiced it.

I think when I feel I'm at my best is when I'm on stage, and it's my version of jazz because it's just riffing or something.

Send anyone claiming that their RPG activity is an art form my way, and I'll gladly stick a pin in their head and deflate it just to have the satisfaction of the popping sound that makes. One might play a game artfully, but that makes neither the game nor its play art.

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

People always said, "I can't believe you made a movie that had no script." Yeah, but here's the thing, if you've got actors who are used to that, and that's what they like to do, they're all good improvisers and they're all people that feel comfortable doing that, then you know, it's not that big of a deal. It's what you do.

Most of my show is just improvisation. It goes with the energy of the crowd.

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.

I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career.

I like being in focus, in the moment, changing and adapting and creating and advancing a scene.

There's nothing wrong with an actor that can't improvise, but if you're going to improvise, you gotta make sure you got people that can play the game.

Some of the best stuff in all my movies has been improv.

I don't think that many people today, understand the nature of what an improv does for an actor in a specific setting. What an improv does for an actor is help him find the life; it's the life that an actor's after.

With comedy, if you write something for me, I'm better at it. I'm not sure I'm so good at improvisational stuff.

I don't like to hold too much formality in concerts. It's not that I don't like seeing people who are really polished and put together. But I'm more excited by things that are a little bit breaking apart as you're watching them.

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.

I always start with emotion. That's where I start all of my improvisations, on the piano. I always start with the mood or the feel of where I am in that moment.

I'm a big fan of improvisation but I can't say that I'm great at it.

It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling.

I've always wanted to make an improv movie because I have so much experience in it.

I love improvisation. I mean, it's hard to edit, because things don't necessarily fall together - you have to find ways to give it a dramatic scope, shape. But it's so much fun.

I never left jazz. The relationship between structure and improvisation - that constant conversation and tension - I've always wanted in every genre and song that I perform.

I'd like to do a contemporary London thing, working with like-minded people, possibly through improvisation.