Quotes About Craftsmanship

There's something very satisfying about making anything with your hands.

I'd rather see a writer write 15 minutes a day than save it all up for a Saturday. A work gets a coating on it when it's not been worked on for a while, makes it hard to break back in.

People come with the record done but just need a little more sauce on top. That's what I'm good at.

When I'm on set, I don't really think about what an audience is going to think about a scene. I'm just thinking about how I can make it best. And how I can enjoy myself most.

I was so inspired by the Alfa 158 that I made my own version of it from scratch.

The elegance of a really good screenplay, I admire it. I can't do it.

Screenwriting is about condensing.

I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them.

Good scripts are hard to find.

Scripts and directors make great actors, not the other way around.

My heart truly lies in good scripts.

You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself.

Richard Serra, the great sculptor, personifies an artist for me.

Many of my sculptures take a long time to make.

I made all sorts of things: drawings, sculptures - I was doing origami before I even knew the word. I was constantly creating.

The thing I love about car design is that it's sculpture everybody appreciates, everybody has access to.

We would say, OK, the B section isn't good enough, let's rewrite that,' until we felt the song was great.

Indian artists are working with a history that's overwhelming and rich.

People think that I have this wonderful hourglass figure, but I owe that to designer Tadashi Shoji because he cuts for me really well.

I owe my entire to theatre. Simply because, I got so many chances to practice. Playing the same character for days, I could understand and practice on how to build that emotional arc.

So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing.

I revise obsessively. It's important to me to have a clean page.

When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.

Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.