There are people who prefer to say โYesโ, and there are people who prefer to say โNoโ. Those who say โYesโ are rewarded by the adventures they have, and those who say โNoโ are rewarded by the safety they attain.
Keith JohnstoneImagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be โwrongโ, which is what our education encourages us to believe.
Keith JohnstoneI 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.
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 Johnstone