Alber Elbaz Quotes

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

I'm not able to go in with an act that I use month to month year to year all the time. It's constantly evolving and changing and that keeps me on my toes but certainly adds to the challenge.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

I try not to do anything by formula.

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 like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.

I improvise a lot and try something new every couple of years.

If you don't have a plan, you can end up doing some interesting things.

When I do a take, I very often try things that I haven't planned to try to see if I can pull it off.

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what it is. You have to be open to what it's going to become rather than have this thing that you're trying to get to, which is boring.

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

Think on your toes, use what's around you, and come up with something organic and fun.

With 'Friday Night Lights,' we were encouraged to make it our own and improvise as much as we wanted.

I'm just sort of making it up as I go along.

When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.

I'm a guy who likes to make it up as he goes along.

I try new stuff every time I perform. I have steps I do that I know are definite, and stuff I can make up right then and there and then forget.

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.

I like to leave a little room to innovate and change things around while I'm working.

I'm not someone who feels like I have to do it the same way. I never feel restricted. It all should grow out of different moments and if it goes completely different that's how it should go.

We can no longer stand at the end of something we visualized in detail and plan backwards from that future. Instead we must stand at the beginning, clear in our mind, with a willingness to be involved in discovery... it asks that we participate rather than plan.

Every now and then I'll think of something to put back in the show. I just kind of play it off the top of my head. If I do it that way it keeps it kinda fresh.

When you work with an actor and then you discover new things that are better, I think you gotta be free to be able to go with the new things that you're finding. I think that's very important. I have a strong idea when I go to shoot a movie but I also love to discover things when I'm on set as well.