In a normal education everything is designed to suppress spontaneity, but I wanted to develop it.

Very hard to get an audience. So if you're going to fill the theatre, you can't just rely on old stuff.

The problem's always been to deal with the fear.Cos the fear is pretty . . . it ruins everybody really.

In life most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. Bad improvisers block action often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.

I mean, in the foreword to Impro in Denmark is by Søren 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.

Good impro can make you laugh, we love it, but soon the content is forgotten. Good scenes from The Life Game stay with you always. They haunt you.

Enjoy things even when you’re screwing up.