Quotes About Craftsmanship

I don't sit down and write a song, and then slam down the phone like, 'We got another one!' and pop some champagne. It's like if someone's writing a novel: You write a series of drafts.

In the Seventies, album artwork became really beautiful items. The whole process of doing an album sleeve, it became a very artistic thing.

I'm good at pants. They are just two big sleeves sewn together.

It's a very interesting thing because I can start mixing a song and leave the room and come back and maybe just slide one lever to a certain point, and it just - it's a certain feeling that it gives you when you know it's right.

I'm a perfectionist, and I like to do each scene slightly differently every time.

Better ingredients, better pizza - it's not a slogan. It's a way of life.

Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.

In all animation, if it's done quickly, you'll know it. And if you're very slow and careful with it, it's going to look a little more beautiful. It's just compressing time into seconds.

I'm a very careful, slow writer, and I think a lot of that comes from the care required to be a hand-printer, where if something isn't spaced out enough, you take little slivers of brass or copper and put them between each letter.

I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.

I write very slowly.

I write slowly.

I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft. I can write more quickly than I can read.

'Madame Bovary' advanced slowly, as slowly as it would have to have, given an author who held himself accountable to each word, that it be the right word, of which there could be only one.

I write slowly. I can't move on until I've got a paragraph right.

Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, small farmers and gardeners, or restaurateurs who use fresh, locally sourced ingredients.

I face the camera every day as a student as there is a lot to learn. You become an actor when you put emphasis on smaller details.

So many of my paintings, people would be like, 'What more do you have to do?' But the smallest little things make all of the difference.

What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.

I have never been to an acting school, and on the sets of 'Karwaan,' Irrfan was my acting school. By observing him, I learnt to improvise in the scenes along with focusing on the smallest of the details.

RGV, as a filmmaker, is very smart.

A lot of people who don't write for kids think it's easy, because they think kids aren't as smart as they are, or that you have to dumb down what you would normally write for kids. But I think you have to work harder when you write for kids, to make sure every word is right, that it's there for the right reason.

People just don't understand the art form of what we do. It's a mental and physical grind. You can't be a dolt in this industry. On the opposite end of that, you can be the smartest guy in the world and not understand what it is to have a presence on stage.

The smartest thing a filmmaker can do is to become a good editor.