Quotes About Craftsmanship

I set up a centre for zari-zardozi artists near Paharganj.

Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available.

I have an old car that I've rebuilt myself - a 1973 Dodge Challenger - and I also have a 1967 Pontiac GTO.

I consider myself a character actor.

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.

You don't become a chef to become famous.

You don't go into being a chef for the money.

There are so many impassioned winemakers. I think there are more impassioned winemakers than chefs.

When I was a carpenter, I built sets for small storefront Chicago companies. Like, I built sets for friends of mine at The House Theater.

You've got to chop back the performance like a rose bush. That's when it's beautiful.

You make yourself do the physical aspects for a Christopher Nolan film!

I read up a lot about ceramics and collect them, but when you make something, it's very difficult to like it. I quite like appreciating and supporting what someone else does.

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.

Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.

On the manufacturing side, surfing was a lot harder than sailing. You had to find guys who could shape, who could glass, and you're looking for good people among all these surfers, you know. Keeping the quality up was always a problem.

There was one thing I loved a little bit more than surfing - and that was acting.

I have one brother who is a surgeon, there's me, and my other brother builds boats.

My first draft is always way too long; my books start out with delusions of 'War and Peace' - and must be gently disabused. My editor is brilliant at taking me to the point where I do all the necessary cutting on my own. I like to say she's a midwife rather than a surgeon.

I believe every editor should stand to edit. That's just my particular soapbox. Some things are so delicate and depend on such fine, delicate work. One frame in one direction or another can make such a difference and it is, in that, like brain surgery.

I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.

It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good.

I'm a sucker for expertly-executed detail and surprise elements in clothing.