Quotes About Craftsmanship

I am an artist first and a photographer second.

Fashion photographers are the new painters.

I don't think there is a movie that I've been on that I wasn't sure I could direct it better. But certainly also, as a director of photography, I have to serve the movie in whatever way I can as a filmmaker.

I do like to turn a phrase, but it's all about how you turn it.

Think of the phrase 'dining institution' as a badge of honour. One that is earned after many years, and many more hearts won.

So much of my background is about making: physically doing it myself.

It is a labor of love, but there is a lot of labor, especially when you're trying to build a big, epic world with lots of details and a kind of physics of magic that makes some sense and actually has some rules to it.

The basic idea is always constructed around piano or guitar and a voice, that's what we live and die by, because if you build up from that foundation, it's going to be strong.

I do a devilish borscht, and I'm very good at pickles. I used to make jars and jars of sweet-and-sour pickled cucumbers.

Some people design buildings and aircraft carriers and cars - and I designed picks.

I'm very picky about the kind of work that I do, and I'm fortunate to have been able to work with great directors and great actors who've helped me grow as an artist.

It's amazing what the acoustic guitar can bring to the picture.

If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: writing picture books is an art - the art of word choice.

If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason.

I do the odd pie, or quiche or sausage roll.

I'm pretty proud of my pie crust. I think I've finally learned how to manhandle it just enough.

I look at every piece of furniture and every object as an individual sculpture.

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

'Midnight Cowboy' is an exquisite piece of filmmaking. It's insane.

I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!

It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.

I made every single piece myself, each individual component, so it was quite time consuming.

I have done some short pieces that are not horror.