Ive done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didnt take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral, it didnt take off. – Albert Brooks
Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change, but Ive never worked on a movie, including my own, that didnt take advantage of a rehearsal process. – Albert Brooks
By the way, movies are like sporting events in that youre as good as the movie youre in. You can sit in a room for 20 years and go do a movie and you can just kill in it and you move to the head of the line again. By the same token, you can do five movies a year and if theyre dreck, its nothing. – Albert Brooks
All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because thats all people know how to do when theyre improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other. – Albert Brooks