You don't want to OD on improvisation.
All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.
I really enjoyed working on 'Dumb & Dumberer' with Cheri Oteri, maybe because we are both into improvisations. We were meant to act together.
Most of my show is just improvisation. It goes with the energy of the crowd.
I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.
Now jamming - which is about collaborative improvisation - has to do with getting people together to be creative musically. But it is a very powerful metaphor for understanding the grammar of the creative process. It applies to business and to other pursuits as well.
To work from nature is to improvise.
Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.
Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.
By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.
It was amazing how much their [Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Shauna Robertson] process seemed familiar to me, translating that into the work that I had done and giving actors a lot of freedom and doing a lot of improvisation and a total respect and collaboration with all the department heads and all the crews, and just really making it an enjoyable industry rather than just clocking in and doing a job which a lot of movies are.
Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.
[Improvisation ] is been with me all my life. We all do it.
The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.
Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders.
The transformation of the impossible into reality is always the mark of a demonic will. The only way to recognize a military genius is by the fact that, during the war, he will mock the rules of warfare and will employ creative improvisation instead of tested methods and he will do so at the right moment.
I'm not a standup. I didn't start off as a writer, I learned to write through improvisation, and so that's the part of the show that can most surprise me. The written part of the show, I know I can get wrong. You can't really get the interview "wrong. "
Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.
I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. You can't blame it on the camera guy. . . It's you. You're on. You've got to do it, and you either sink or swim with what you've got.