I'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.

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.

The improviser has to understand that his first skill lies in releasing his partner’s imagination.

My feeling is the moment the theatre is not full you have to do something else. But most people somehow think 'If we did it better, they would come'. No. They don't come.

The improvisation had to be in public, because you only get value playing to strangers.

None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public.

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