I tell people not to do their best. I don't know when that started. Quite a while ago. Because I . . . when they're doing their best I don't get their best. So I try to persuade them to be average. Because if you're wonderful and you're average, you're still wonderful. If you're a bad improviser and you're average, you're what you are.
Keith JohnstoneEvery theatre worth anything has somebody in the middle of it who is driving it; like Joan Littlewood with her theatre.
Keith JohnstoneIf people had no fear, you'd hardly need to have to teach them. It's the fear that screws everything up.
Keith Johnstone