Talking Improv

I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There’s an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one character, and lots of side games with other characters, and another game with myself—and in each game you make all these tiny, tiny moves that get you to the endgame.

Steve Carell in The New Yorker

Just to clear up any doubt that Steve Carell is a genius.

(via improvobsession)

Source: newyorker.com