Megan Amram Quotes

Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan.

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.

No, I never planned my life.

If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.

You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

I always leave room for serendipity and chance.

There's always some room for improvisation.

So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done.

I'm not a planner. I like to try something different, to just see what happens.

Spontaneity is everything to me, working without a net.

I like to improvise; I think it's just a healthy thing to do, to keep everything loose and fun.

An actor can never plan. You never know what can work in your favour or not and then maybe the whole dynamics can change.

There's a certain amount of joy in playing a character in the moment and not knowing what's going to roll out as it goes on. It's a bit like life, in a way.

I am always living in the now, so I like what fate brings to you. That's always fun for me. To have a process and someone be like, 'How about this?' And you just grab onto that and see where it takes you.

I love when things don't go to plan.

It's always more fun when something happens outside of a script.

Play is experimenting with chance.

It often feels like a tremendous amount of work is required to get an idea moving forward, like pushing a train uphill. But at a certain point, the thing takes on its own momentum, and takes unexpected turns. So it's that feeling of holding on, rather than pushing it, that is the most exciting thing. It's that need to occasionally bounce off the walls, letting anything happen for any reason, and having nothing to guide you that is the joy.

I've worked with collage a lot. And there's this chance thing that happens - you don't always control things. Why did you find this today and not this? But you've got this thing, and you make it work. It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

You can't make a mistake when you improvise.

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

I've never followed a list in my life, and that's probably what has created so much nervous energy in my body.