To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.
“I think you need people of principle, of character, that are leaders, that take stands on important tough issues that will affect the future of this country.”
“Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.”