You can sort of trick people into being really good. Even if they didn't know anything.
Keith JohnstoneI mean, in the foreword to Impro in Denmark is by Sรธren Iversen, who I taught long ago, he was a Danish director, after he left. He said he'd read about [Eugeny] Vakhtangov. I'm a fan of his. When he heard that Vakhtangov had lots of tricks, he thought this was very bad. But when he came to be my student, he realised it was very good to have a lot of tricks. You saw some this morning.
Keith JohnstoneAs I grew up, everything started getting grey and dull. I could still remember the amazing intensity of the world I'd lived in as a child, but I thought the dulling of perception was an inevitable consequence of age - just as a lens of the eye is bound gradually to dim. I didn't understand that clarity is in the mind.
Keith JohnstoneI'm not against work, I think work is great, I work a lot; but if you want to play, the consequences must not be important.
Keith Johnstone