Rupert Friend Quotes

The best plan is to have no plan.

I don't like to plan anything ever because it never seems to work. I'm just really...let's just get this film out and see how this one does.

I used to be very rigid because I just wanted to get through it. Now, if I think a scene should go a certain way and it goes another, I'm able to go that new way with ease.

I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself.

I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

You can't always go by the book, even in comedy.

The hardest thing is that I never do anything the same way twice, and when I'm on the air, I'm very unscripted, and I'm very comfortable in that role. So me being scripted is not a comfortable place for me.

I'm not good at making plans, because I never have been. I never do things with an idea of where they may wind up.

I'm not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there's going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what's going to happen. I would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.

I never make films thinking 'This is my film. This right here is undoubtedly Kim Jee-Woon style.' I am not even sure what 'Kim Jee-Woon style' is. When I make films, I never allow myself to make hard-set decisions ahead of time.

I think I've lived long enough to understand that plans really are very overrated.

I don't have a game plan. I never did, and it's too late to have one even if I wanted to.

What I learned in 'Sons' is that I would come in with a blueprint of a season and how it would go, and I realized that the looser my grip was, the better it became because the story found itself. Things happened as I wanted them to in terms of the bigger mile markers, but the fun part was I never knew how we would get there.

You've gotta leave enough space for your actors to bring stuff to the table and whatever the weather's doing that day or what the light's like. Things can shift, and you have to be malleable. Every day is a different feeling and a change.

I've never really had a plan. You never know what's going to happen.

My life and career have been a big improvisation.

One never can plan. I just did my work and enjoyed shooting for all my films.

I like to leave things open, and even when I write out the story ahead of time, it always changes. I don't think I would finish anything if I was sticking to a plan that was very rigid.

I've stopped making plans a long time back because they never work in my case. Now, I just take each day as it comes.

Rigidity is the enemy of acting. And I think that people who stay up all night focusing on every beat they're going to do the next day always end up getting screwed.

Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion — you keep going forward, fearful or not, living from moment to moment. That’s how life is.

I like to let each thing happen - direct it a little consciously, maybe - but just kind of follow the vibrations I get in each particular circumstance. We don't plan theatrics. We hardly ever know which set we'll play.

The reason I don't have a plan is because if I have a plan I'm limited to today's options.

I try not to plan that too much.