Improvisation Quotes - Page 9

• I would make a huge distinction between theater improvisation and film improvisation. There isn't much improvisation in film - there's virtually none. The people that theoretically could be good at this in a theater situation don't necessarily do this in a film in a way that will work, because it's much broader on a stage. But in a movie, it has to be real, and the characters have to look entirely real because it's being done as a faux documentary, so there are even fewer actors that can do that on film.

  Christopher Guest

  Real, Character, People

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I can't speak American dog very well. There was a lot of improvisation with Uggie - like when I put the dog on the table or sometimes I follow him, sometimes he follows me. I had a lot of treats in my pocket. We worked with Omar Von Muller, the dog trainer. It was very easy because it was a big movie.

  Jean Dujardin

  Dog, Tables, Pockets

  "Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 23, 2011.

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• Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.

  John Cale

  Successful, Musical, Facts

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• With Halloween, the director was this genius wonder boy who was the writer, director, producer, along with his girlfriend. They were this team, and they were making this small movie, and it was just completely different, but it was really inspiring and a lot of fun, and also allowed me to do a lot of improvisation, because they just depended on the girls to expand their parts to bring some real life, being girls ourselves, to the characters.

  P. J. Soles

  Girl, Fun, Halloween

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Dave Brubeck

  Play, Creative, Want

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• [Improvisation ] is been with me all my life. We all do it.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• I have a variety of ways that I make music, but I'm working with the Thingamajigs in a particular way, which is: They are bringing to me their performance skills and their unusual instruments, which I'm relishing. They're really beautiful. The other thing is improvisation - these players improvise and they do it very beautifully, as a matter of fact.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Beautiful, Player, Skills

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• It's very interesting to read why Cornelius Cardew became disenchanted with academic avant-garde music. He wanted to reach as many people as possible and change their consciousness. He wanted to reach the "working classes" in England. The kind of music he was making was very much from the academy, even though it had a lot in common with things like free jazz and improvisation, and he felt that it was the music of the elite, and that he wasn't really speaking to the people.

  Alasdair MacLean

  People, Interesting, Jazz

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I try to influence this improvisation in two ways. One is by centering on reflections, in both senses of the word: acoustic reflections as well as visual reflections from a mirror or surface, and then reflecting on the material in a contemplative way. The other influence is listening to the tails of the sounds that you make.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Reflection, Mirrors, Two

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• Remember that a book is many drafts - mine certainly are. It's improvisation. It's as much jazz and the way we talk and the way I heard people preach coming up as it is writing.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You have to study composition to understand that things can be done backwards and forwards and upside down, inverted, but it's mainly just an inner valid intuitive thing. Where do you want to go? Ok this is busy, or this needs some space, or this is too much space so now I want to put more notes in there or something. It's all about contrast. High, low. Fast, slow, thick or thin or what have you. And it's the same with improvisation.

  Terry Bozzio

  Space, Want, Too Much

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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• I don't think I differentiate between composition and improvisation. Improvisation could be a large part of a composition.

  Yoshi Wada

  Thinking, Composition, Differentiate

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Having been an actor, I always want to leave room for the actors to find their comfort zone, so I don't like to be too rigid in how I plan my shots. It's different if you have weeks to rehearse and you can rehearse on your sets or in your locations and you can plan that out with your actors, but in modern independent filmmaking, you don't really have that time. You have to have a certain level of improvisation.

  Eric Balfour

  Independent, Different, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.

  Billy Crystal

  Character, Directors, Actors

  "Billy Crystal for 'Monsters Inc.'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. November 1, 2001.

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• Anything I do, I learn about first. I am not in favour of improvisation; I believe in work and in learning

  Ferreira Gullar

  Believe, Firsts, Favour

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• It's kind of like being a writer in the sense that you always hear other writers say, 'Well, the best way to start writing is to just start writing.' The same goes for improvisation. You want to start improvising, just start playing notes. And the more you do that, the more comfortable - or not comfortable - but I guess how you're able to adapt to situations. You become more familiar with your instrument. As soon as you have a musical thought, you can go ahead and add to that musical thought and know your way around.

  Jherek Bischoff

  Writing, Musical, Kind

  Source: thequietus.com

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

  Lily Collins

  Taken, Class, Ideas

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Any education system that only memorizes things creates robots and will never produce Nobel laureates. Any education system that only emphasizes improvisation will get a bunch of people who may think they are creative, but they are functionally illiterate.

  John Medina

  Thinking, People, Creative

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• So much of the show [ Too Much Tuna] is improvisation, and I think that Nick [Kroll] and John [Mulaney] kind of catch each other at times, surprise each other. I think that really makes it a fun, sort of live, unique experience.

  Alex Timbers

  Fun, Unique, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I lived in San Francisco for about eight years and I did a lot of improvisation there. The improvisational world ruled the voice world in San Francisco, so I became a voice talent there and did a lot of commercials and worked all the time. But I never could break into animation.

  Amy Hill

  Eight, Years, Voice

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Seth Rogen

  Jobs, Giving, Collaboration

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• Normal adults can doodle, amble, and drift with no need to assess risk, since there is normally no risk at all. Jazz improvisation seems less subject to standards of risk than surgery, and less than much formal athletic performance, as in a tennis match.

  Ernest Sosa

  Tennis, Risk, Athletic

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I always hankered to be a composer - I was mad about music, though I never studied seriously, and can't read a note. But I learned to play the piano and became pretty skillful at improvisation, especially after a drop or two.

  Conrad Aiken

  Play, Two, Piano

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• That's what it is-it's jazz. It's just jazz. That's what the whole thing is about to me. It's about what's happening right now in this context. This conversation is jazz to a certain extent. It's improvisation. What appeals to me about music is the improvization. That's what I don't like about the media-they're not living it.

  Van Morrison

  Media, Jazz, Certain

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• It's a very collaborative environment [making The Office]. We always do takes of how it's scripted, but then we also mix it up a lot too. And it's kind of a crapshoot, you never know which one... I mean a lot of time improvisation doesn't go anywhere and it's not good at all but, so what was written is often times better.

  Ed Helms

  Mean, Office, Kind

  Source: movies.about.com

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