Quotes About Craftsmanship

Prakash Jha is an intense filmmaker, he is a perfectionist. He would never have a song just for the sake of it.

Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.

When I think of Uniqlo, I think of things that are perfectly made, that people have spent a lot of time considering.

I'm very impressed by films like' Whiplash' or what Fincher does, where you get all these different... Where you get all this coverage that's perfectly linked up. I actually find coverage very confusing. But I love sequencing shots because I know exactly where I am.

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

I mean these people who work on Broadway, in my opinion, are the most gifted of everyone. I mean they really know how to dance. They really know how to act. They really know how to sing. They know how to perform.

Watching Bernadette Peters perform is like an acting class. She's amazing.

I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.

I love actors; I love seeing great performances. I just love that, when I'm seeing a performance, that inside me, I just go, 'Oh my God, how are you doing that? Where is that coming from?' Where you see an actor do something, and I can't even locate it in my own body.

When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction.

Any actor can be glamorous, but not everybody can be a performer. That's why I'm focusing more on the performance side. I feel that's what even people want from me.

I worked really hard in college, and I came out a completely different person and performer than when I went in. I did the work, and I found a craft.

If I had to give up everything else and keep just one aspect of the job, I'd have to keep writing because I love it. Yes, I enjoy performing, too. But I couldn't give up writing material.

I'm inspired to work with good actors, period. I want to work with the best anytime because I think they'll make me better.

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.

Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, a third which imitates them.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

Dexterity in the depths.

No ruses, no tools ,but tactic makes a task truly top class.

A bad workman always blames his tools.

Even a tin knocker will shine on a dirty floor.