"Studying improvisation changed my life. The rules of improvisation appeal to me not only as a way of creating new material, but it also kind of changed my world view. The first rule of improvisation is agree. Always agree and say yes. When you’re improvising this means that you are required to agree with whatever your partner has created. So, if you and I are improvising and I come in and I say, “Freeze, I have a gun!” And you say, “That’s not a gun, that’s your finger. You’re pointing your finger at me.” Then our improvised scene has kind of ground to a hault. But if I come in and say, “Freeze, I have a gun!” And you say, “The gun I gave you for Christmas, how could you?” Then we have started a scene because we have agreed that my finger is in fact a Christmas gun. Now obviously, in real life, you’re not always going to agree with everything that every person says, that would be ridiculous. But the thing about the rule of agreement, I think, is that it teaches you to respect what your partner has created. That’s what we would say in class, if your partner has created something, you respect that. And I think that will lead you to a great open-minded starting place. To start with a yes in all your interactions and then see where that takes you."

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