Improvised Quotes

(on W.C. Fields) His comedy routines appeared spontaneous and improvised, but he spent much time perfecting them. He knew exactly what he was doing every moment, and what each prop was supposed to do. That "my little chickadee" way of talking of his was natural.

It`s real acting, in a sense. You`re reacting spontaneously to things you`ve never heard before. You can either do it or not, and if you`re with a bunch of people who can, there`s nothing more fun. - on improvised acting.

I have this whole picture of the film in my head and then I put it all down on paper and storyboard it; showing the movie shot by shot. I like to feel that I have thought of everything before the camera starts rolling but I think that`s probably my asset and weakness as a film maker. I am giving my cast a target that I have in my mind and they are trying to hit it. It`s positive because I know exactly what I want to get out of my actors and the scene. But the negative is that I might not catch the lightning in the bottle, I may not get that unexpected improvised brilliance.

(On Taxi Driver`s infamous line) "You have no idea that years later, people in cars will recognize you on the street and shout, `You talkin` to me?` I don`t remember the original script, but I don`t think the line was in it. We improvised. For some reason it touched a nerve. That happens."

It`s absolutely impossible to improvise. Making a movie is a mathematical operation. It is like sending a missile to the moon. It isn`t improvised. It is too defined to be called improvisational, too mechanical. Art is a scientific operation, so I can say that what we usually call improvisation is in my case just having an ear and eye for things that sometimes occur during the time we are making the picture.

Most of the time I`m thinking, I`m glad that scene was improvised.

I`ve never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that`s the challenge.

When we first shot it, something very, very weird happened, and it`s a good example of how things work intuitively or are improvised.

Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls.

I probably am a lazy artist and probably don`t control things as much as some people would like- but that`s my business. And if my style is too loose or improvised for some people`s taste, that`s their problem- totally. The fact is, I`m not the greatest Hollywood director and that bullshit, but I`m not the opposite either. And I am not careless. I may be irresponsible, I may strive for things and not always succeed. but that`s never the result of sloppiness. Maybe it`s lack of judgment.

Late this morning, two US soldiers were slightly wounded when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device or a hand grenade,

Late this morning, two US soldiers were slightly wounded when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device or a hand grenade, ... The explosion set fire to the vehicle.

A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situation where the music is being improvised and one is determined it is not going to succeed, it won`t succeed even if one of the musicians takes control.

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

On some songs you`re hearing the vocal as I improvised it (as in `Function Of The Orgasm`) so you may hear me stumble.

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.

I can definitely see these robots having a much more instrumental role in this and the following years than they did at the beginning of the conflict, due to the fact that a lot of the improvised explosive devices are on the small secondary streets,