Quotes About Craftsmanship

One movie I come back to time and again is 'The Hustler.' I don't think there's better dialogue in any film.

I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter.

I make hats for lots of iconic people, and that makes my job very interesting.

There are so many roles that actors like Nawazuddin Siddiqui or Manoj Bajpayee or Irrfan have done. And they make every character iconic. They are the masters of their art... I want to be like that.

I love creating and being able to see an idea come to fruition. I love making beautiful things.

Look at Kartik Aaryan, Ayushmann Khurrana - they aren't from the industry, they worked very hard. Varun Dhawan is a great actor. I know how hard he works on his craft and even in the gym, so you can't ignore that and just talk about him being a director's son.

I believe that a good comic script can succeed despite being drawn badly, but that a bad script can't be saved by good art. Of course, great writing and great illustration makes for a great comic 100 percent of the time.

You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.

My two great loves when I'm shooting are working with great actors and composing images.

Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.

My first Hindi film as a leading man was Mahesh Bhatt's 'Saaransh,' which immediately established me as someone who knows the craft.

Sometimes when an actor says something almost perfect, but you know you have to edit it, if you tell them to change something immediately, it will come out great.

I think the pairing of your material practice with your subject is something that is the constant concern of every artist for time immemorial.

I've always looked at shoes as being immensely beautiful things.

Even though my shoes are different from Ferragamo's aesthetic, which is more classic, I learned the importance of fit and quality. We were making shoes like they used to, by hand, and I carried that with me.

I often find that writers who disavow the importance of an ending are just not very good at endings.

I think it's almost impossible to edit something to death. I think you can make things better almost indefinitely.

I know a lot of actors who get a part and then they dissect it and they want to change it and they want to add stuff. I'm always amazed and so impressed by actors who do that.

I do a lot of improvising when I'm writing, and I work very hard on the scripts... they are written very much in an actor-friendly way.

When I'm working on a short story, I could duck into a bathroom at a crowded party and write a scene, which is to say I can work in a very incremental way.

I love Indian wear and I think no one can beat the masterpieces our Indian designers and craftsmen create.

I assert that the art of sculpture, among all the arts connected with design, is at least seven times greater than any other, for the following reason: why, sir, a statue of true sculpture ought to have seven points of view, which ought all to boast equal excellence.

My answer to this was that the purest-bred cats made better mousers when they were fat than when they were starving; and in the same way honest craftsmen did much better work when they had plenty to live on.

Real painter understand with a brush in their hand.