Quotes About Craftsmanship

Duke was not what you would call a natural actor, but he learned. And when he learned, he mastered one of the hardest things of all - to act natural. And he does it so well that a lot of people still don't know he's acting. - Paul Fix

Enthusiasm is the first step, Artfulness comes later.

Painting, carving, rigging - you two will be rather busy.' 'Wow,' said Locke, 'that sounds like an absolutely grand way to spend the voyage.' It wasn't.

Islanders too are for sculpting.

And here is love like a tinsmith's scoop sunk past its glean in the meal-bin. --"Sunlight

The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time.

Instead of writing it wrong six times and then writing it right, I think it wrong six times and then write it right the seventh time.

I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.

When you have somebody who takes their craft seriously, you don't have to babysit them and be there all the time.

I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.

Someone told me once that Lucinda Williams takes six years between albums, and that's what stuck to me; it's like, you really are a factory. You don't do things to make them, on your own time.

Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

For me, directing is like writing with meat. I can write live, in real time, and change things and be confident that I'm helping the movie.

People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a kind of curled-up, capsized state.

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

Quality and perfection are achieved with time. You do not create a perfect painting or a perfect poem by hurrying. Time is always coming.

I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time.

Every Man owes some of his time to the upbuilding of the profession to which he belongs.

All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid. One word, one stone at a time, underneath a full moon while the fingers bleed.

A comedian, or any artist, needs their time to develop what they are doing. There has to be some respect for the art form and when it's allowed to be seen.

For me a watch is a really beautiful instrument. I don't so much care what time it is but I do love watches, and I love how they're constructed.

It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles and drops.

I wish I was making shoes instead of reading or watching movies, which is what I do in my free time.

I value very much the time before the show, when there is nothing else but to concentrate on the show, and it's just purely design.