Originally Posted on yeslabyrinth.tumblr.com // Author: Bobby McCosky
Try to avoid any contractual situation where you are held back from your ideas.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest)
See. Even Kanye knows that your transaction scene isn’t about the amount of money you’re paying for this dildo, it’s about the people in the scene.
Distraction is the enemy of vision.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest)
Dave, maybe don’t come back out as the waiter just yet. You’ve only been gone 10 seconds. Remember, a good walk on, walks off.
I don’t believe in the concept of an enemy. We have been conditioned to always be in competition. Stop looking for something to beat and just be. You don’t have to do all the work. Once you start moving in love the universe will assist you.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest)
You tend to play scenes where you create a problem right out of the gate between two people, and then you spend the whole scene trying to solve this imaginary problem. Let’s just start this next scene as two people who enjoy each other’s company, and earn our way to this conflict you tend to go towards. For now, just be.
In life, we are all trained actors. When we’re born we’re ourselves and then one of the first things we’re thought is how to act. If you see a kid screaming at a restaurant because he feels something and can’t express himself in a conventional manner.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest)
Everyone will say he needs to learn how to act. At home parental acting classes are one of the first steps to us loosing who we really are to “the simulation”. Parents are our first acting coaches.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest)
Character is just a thin veil over yourself. Also, say what you (the human, not the improviser) feel in this scene. It’s more real, and it’s the truth we want to get to. PS- You’ve eaten a bowl of cereal 3000 times, just mime eating a bowl of cereal like you’re eating a bowl of cereal.
Trend is always late.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest)
You gotta be one step ahead of the audience. If you are this character who cries anytime someone brings up Jonathan Taylor Thomas, and you have done two tag outs where people just bring up JTT in front of you, and you cry, don’t tag someone out just to do that again. Can we take this somewhere the audience would never expect? Somewhere where we don’t feel safe.
Been reworking the production shape on these #RATBOOTS 🐀🐀🐀for 6 months. I’m super happy with them. I’m excited about the ability to give a boot the true YEEZY shape. Feels more future. [pic.twitter.com/A9miXqZQUG]
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest)
Be comfortable in your own shoes.
Me and my friend Anthony Schiller always ask questions about time. Is time linear? I recently did an interview where I placed a high value on time. Everything means nothing until you make it something. You are your validator.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest)
Make things matter. The audience will care if you care. Your friend Anthony Schiller, and you like to get high, and talk about time, but why are we watching this scene right now?
You have the best ideas. Other people’s opinions are usually more distractive than informative. Follow your own vision. base your actions on love. Do things you love and if you don’t absolutely love something stop doing it as soon as you can.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest)
Okay. Not all good life advice is good improv advice.