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As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in prisons, hospitals, young offender's units, youth clubs and housing estates.
Jenny Downham
Youth
People
Young
Community
Seven
London
Hospitals
Take
Housing
Access
Prisons
Years
Offender
Normally
Improvisation
Stories
Estates
Theater
Clubs
Young People
Them
Worked
Used
Who
Company
Actor
Based
Techniques
Units
I feel there has to be a certain amount of improvisation as I'm writing, which means any idea or any commitment to a project is risky. It involves time; it involves gathering of material, and sometimes it just doesn't work. Sometimes it does. As I'm starting out on a project, I can't tell if it will click or not.
Joanna Scott
Work
Time
Commitment
Writing
Sometimes
Will
Gathering
Project
Out
Tell
Risky
Idea
Feel
Involves
Click
Does
Material
Improvisation
Any
Just
Which
Certain
Means
Amount
Starting
What basketball expresses is what jazz expresses. Certain cultural predispositions to make art. All African-American art has a substratum, or baseline, of improvisation and spontaneity. You find that in both basketball and jazz.
John Edgar Wideman
Art
You
Jazz
Find
Both
Spontaneity
Make
Cultural
Improvisation
African-American
Certain
Expresses
Basketball
Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance.
John Zorn
Time
Good
You
Preparation
Too
Bad
Classical
Bad Performance
Fact
Takes
Performance
Check
Stuff
Involves
Comfortable
Sound
Lot
Improvisation
Gets
In Fact
Want
Stale
Means
Rehearsal
The immediacy of improvisation is intoxicating, but there's an intimacy that you get that's very different when you're doing drama.
Keegan-Michael Key
You
Drama
Intimacy
Immediacy
Intoxicating
Doing
Very
Get
Improvisation
Different
In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.
Kevin Hart
Comedy
Improvisation
Strengths
When improvisation is properly applied, it is compositional thinking, sped way up.
Kurt Elling
Thinking
Way
Properly
Up
Improvisation
Applied
Sometimes people have this notion that improvisation is simply intuitive leaping into the unknown.
Kurt Elling
People
Sometimes
Unknown
Intuitive
Simply
Leaping
Improvisation
Notion
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.
Lars von Trier
Made
Fragments
Fact
Tennis
Had
Like
Without
Balls
Improvisation
Improvised
In Fact
Plan
Bricks
Actor
Play
Rejected
Need
I had two starts, really. The first was going to the Italia Conti stage school, aged 15. I'd gone to sing, but one day I found myself doing an improvisation and thought, 'Oh God, I quite like this acting thing.' The second start was meeting Mike Leigh when I was 22. He showed me I could play people that weren't like me.
Lesley Manville
God
Myself
Day
Me
People
School
Thought
First
Stage
Gone
Starts
Meeting
One Day
Could
Had
He
Like
Sing
Doing
Were
Improvisation
Going
Quite
Oh
Oh God
Leigh
Aged
Really
Mike
Acting
Found
Play
Thing
Start
Second
Two
There's a relationship between music and spirituality and inspiration and to a certain extent improvisation that draws me in, because I don't totally understand it. I know that those relationships have been telling me, since I started making records, where to go. What to write down.
M. Ward
Music
Me
Relationship
Spirituality
Down
Relationships
Those
Draws
Telling
Totally
Records
Inspiration
Write
Between
Since
Know
Because
Understand
Making
Go
Been
Improvisation
Where
Certain
Certain Extent
Extent
Started
There is no facet of my professional life that doesn't require or request improvisation.
Marc Evan Jackson
Life
Facet
Improvisation
Request
Require
Professional
Professional Life
All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.
Martin Short
You
Editing
Possible
Editing Room
Material
Get
Trying
Improvisation
Room
Much
When I came to Chicago, I didn't even know what improvisation meant, as far as pertaining to comedy. I knew about Second City, but I didn't know what the word 'improvisation' meant.
Matt Besser
Comedy
Word
City
About
Knew
Know
Came
Chicago
Improvisation
As Far As
Far
Meant
Pertaining
Even
Second
Second City
I approach music and acting the same way, through spontaneous improvisation. I never really try to rehearse anything, do it over and over, except when we're inside a take.
Matt Schulze
Music
Try
Approach
Way
Inside
Except
Through
Take
Never
Over
Spontaneous
Improvisation
Same
Anything
Really
Acting
Rehearse
Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.
Michael Pitt
Work
Hard Work
Every
Scary
Something
Also
Always
Improvisation
Scripted
Really
Acting
Hard
Fun
Even
Element
Actor
Challenging
Even though the music I make gathers influences from all over the place, I feel that the core of what I do comes from the jazz tradition. In terms of improvisation, interaction, feel and overall concept, Jazz is my main source of information and inspiration.
Miguel Zenon
Music
Jazz
Though
Inspiration
Main
Main Source
Feel
Over
Overall
Concept
Terms
Make
Tradition
Source
Improvisation
Interaction
Influences
Information
Place
Even
Core
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
Mose Allison
Personality
Invention
Jazz
Melodic
Instrumental
Concerned
Improvisation
Essentials
As Far As
Far
Swing
I write through improvisation. I never card out a movie. You know how people will outline or card? I don't do that. I tend to start with an idea and go.
Nia Vardalos
You
People
Will
Out
Outline
Tend
Through
Write
Never
Idea
Know
How
Go
Improvisation
Movie
Card
Start
Most of my favourite moments in film have been when I've had an opportunity to say something from scratch, something original, whether I jotted down a few lines or it came out in improvisation.
Nicolas Cage
Opportunity
Few
Down
Say
Out
Favourite
Something
Had
Most
Came
Been
Lines
Improvisation
Scratch
Whether
Moments
Original
Film
You know I've never worked without a script before, but with Apatow, it's all improvisation. He calls out a premise, and you have to adapt.
Norman Lloyd
You
Before
Out
Never
He
Know
Calls
Without
Improvisation
Script
Worked
Premise
Adapt
I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.
Patrice Leconte
Films
Like
Concise
Well-Written
Lot
Improvisation
Room
We did very little improvisation on camera, and once in a while we did.
Peter Tork
Once
Camera
Very
Did
Improvisation
While
Little
I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?
Peter Wright
Me
Painting
Marks
Outcome
Point
Colour
Never
Knew
Like
Know
Look
Making
Subject
Improvisation
Front
Going
Much
Flooding
Start
I've done a few roles in the past where people got quite worried when I started drifting away from what was written on the script. Often, they see improvisation as worrisome, because that's adding time to their day. But, in 'The Umbrella Academy,' they didn't worry too much about that, because Netflix has loads of money.
Robert Sheehan
Time
Day
People
Money
Too Much
Past
Few
Too
Adding
Worried
Worrisome
Worry
See
About
Netflix
Drifting
Written
Academy
Because
Got
Umbrella
Roles
Improvisation
Done
Quite
Often
Where
In The Past
Script
Much
Away
Started
Loads
My game is based on improvisation. Often, a forward does not have the time to think too much. You have a second, rarely more, to decide whether to dribble, shoot or pass to the right or left. It is instinct that gives the orders.
Ronaldinho
Time
You
Game
Too Much
Think
Too
Rarely
Dribble
More
Gives
Instinct
Does
Pass
Left
Shoot
Improvisation
Often
Decide
Orders
Whether
Much
Forward
Based
Right
Second
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