Every time you go the way the audience expects, they'll think you're original. People laugh with pleasure at the obvious.

I see a great lack of stories around. I bought six literary magazines and looked through them to see what people were doing. There wasn't a story in them. They were all about how poetic the feelings of the author were.

Where if you're in a universe where you have to accept ideas, you'll never know if your partner wanted the garbage you're handing them. They have to take it.

Every theatre worth anything has somebody in the middle of it who is driving it; like Joan Littlewood with her theatre.

In a scene [where the improvisers must interact] without the letter S, the audience is waiting for you to lose - so they can laugh at you. Don't try to win.

Every time you go the way the audience expects, they'll think you're original. People laugh with pleasure at the obvious.

I don't even think you should tell the audience you're improvising. It's like an apology in case it's bad : 'we're just making it up' If the improv isn't better than the rehearsed stuff, then you should just rehearse it.