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"Improvisation is a last resort to save an obviously sinking ship...That is not to say that actors like Brando, Olivier, Rod Steiger, Peter Sellers, Michael Parks, Rip Torn, Stacey Keach...cannot improvise on a poor or mediocre script, and thereby vastly improve it, OR, in fact, that they cannot make something out of nothing--something good, from scratch, just of the top of their heads--but so what? This is simply a facet of their genius--useful in emergencies, amusing in the living room--but can never produce anything comparable to the best written dialogue...It goes without saying that the most engaging, most relevant, most communicative content is achieved through a very strong combination of creativeness and craftsmanship and not simply by somebody blowing off the top of his perhaps second-rate head."
-Terry Southern
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