Quotes About Artistry

We're a family operation. There's not many of us. We have a couple people who come from time to time who work with us. Two of my sons are themselves filmmakers, and we can't afford them nor they us.

When you're acting you put so much of yourself into working. As much fun as it is, it's still hard work and it's still a challenge.

I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well.

I really want to work in a movie with Quentin Tarantino. I think he makes fantastic movies. I love people that create a different reality for the actors to live in.

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.

To get the music the way you want it, there's a lot of work involved.

In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side.

In a certain way, you get some new tools to work with, but I don't know if it ultimately makes the creative process any easier.

Usually, about two years of work go into each illusion, whether it's big or small. Two years of work on each five-minute piece.

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

I don't like watching people work if they're making art.

I got a few things, because I think the props are so beautiful as much as anything else. The detail of the work is something that one has no idea of.

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.

I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an outline and I don't work in a straight line.

Really, voice-over IS great. If it paid as much as on camera work, it's all I'd ever do.

As a producer, youre pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.

I'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well, this is how I make a living, and I need to become a very good craftsman."

I try to only work with people whose craft I believe in.

My beats are pretty s - - y, though. I don't know how they work.

As an artist, I gotta stand up to my own work.

I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation.