Unrehearsed Scenes Quotes

Many times I'll improvise it, which isn't done a lot in movies or commercials. But a lot of my commercials are improvised.

I don't like to rehearse, and the film-makers that I have been drawn to are interested in provoking something between people rather than nailing a scene in advance.

In 'Boomerang,' they didn't have a script at all, they just told me to come up with some stuff.

If I know a guy who's a really good improvisational actor, I'd be foolish not to let him because he'll come up with goodies and all kinds of little freebies that you get.

We actually use a lot of improvisation on 'Transparent.'

With Sean Penn, he wants to be surprised. He doesn't necessarily want what he's written, although we'll do what he's written. He likes the danger of acting.

You don't get time to rehearse in film and TV at all.

All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.

Steve hadn't been to acting school. He had no preconceived notions. His background was exactly what you see on television; he's done that all his life. We thought we'd do one show. What happened was, it did really well, so we did a part two. And from then on, we found that Steve's natural behavior in the wild happens to be fascinating!

On 'Sin Nombre,' Adriano Goldman and I improvised a lot of things on-site. We were working with untrained actors, and you can't really block a scene in a traditional way.

Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact.

I don't rehearse with my actors... the first rehearsal is the first time we turn the camera on... Sydney Pollack never rehearsed his actors, and I found out that's allowed... so you film reactions; you don't create them.

Many of the stranger but most frequently quoted scenes in 'Billy Madison' were unplanned.

I love working with nonactors.