On-the-fly Quotes

You just have to adapt to what is needed at that moment, whereas as coaches are going crazy, because they're used to having and following a schedule. Everything's laid out in front of them on when they're going to practice and when they're going to take a plane to this city.

You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.

Every new routine I have ever written and performed probably occurred extemporaneously. Then after you have fleshed it out and tried it out in front of a number of audiences and it works, you put it down on paper.

I try to preload as little as I can. I like to come to the set with minimal preparation.

When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are prepared totally.

I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation. I like to just go out and do it. Of course, that doesn't mean actors are free to do whatever they like, they're always being directed.

I was building the plane while flying it in the first term.

It's always fun to improvise. What's weird is that when you're recording, you're by yourself, for the most part.