Quotes About Craftsmanship

I'm not really a mass market writer.

There is nothing quite as exciting as watching a master at work.

I'm dedicating myself to an art form that takes a lifetime to master.

The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.

When people ask me what makes movies great, it's the material.

I just write mechanical things.

I am a mechanical techie. I can build things with my hands.

I like restraint. Even with actors, restraint is something that I work on the most.

I edit as I write. I revise endlessly. I don't go forward until I know that what I've written is as good as I can make it.

I write first drafts by hand, often out of the house somewhere, and then, when I've got a draft, type it up and let it sit, sometimes for a long time, and then when I'm ready, I work on revision.

When I write something, I constantly rewrite.

Particularly in my early days, I did very little rewriting.

I've often made revisions at that stage that turned out to be mistakes because I wasn't really in the rhythm of the story anymore. I see a little bit of writing that doesn't seem to be doing as much work as it should be doing, and right at the end, I will sort of rev it up. But when I finally read the story again, it seems a bit obtrusive.

I would like to call India a gold-mine of art. It's really the richest in the world.

I won't say which one, but one shot on 'Kubo' took two months to get the expression right. It's ridiculous on some level.

I could build and roof a house, though electricity is not my thing.

Route running is an art, not a science.

'Routine' was written on piano, and you can hear that. But then you listen to 'Happy Returns,' and you can tell it's definitely been written on guitar, with that singer-songwriter-y strumming quality.

I don't like to rush my music.

There is no need to do a rush job on any film.

I believe when you rush your work, you're not thinking about what you're doing. That's when you make mistakes.

I don't believe in making a record and rushing it.

Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.

You never find virtuosity for its own sake.