Quotes About Craftsmanship

I always change my words in everything I do. I make the language fit, because I know the character from the inside out. Often character actors are not in a position to do that, but I do it. I don't change any cue and I never change anybody else's lines, but I make my own words fit my mouth.

I try very hard to write the best book I possibly can, every time.

I think the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can.

Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.

I've been a printmaker and designed objects. I've done 500 posters.

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.

I feel like I could dominate the origami field. I think I have enormous potential in that area.

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

Restorers of paintings and pottery follow a code of conduct in their work to distinguish the original material from what they are adding later.

Marcia Gay Harden

I was digging in the backyard to get my own clay and making pottery. And then I started taking pictures and built my own darkroom. I would go out at six in the morning and just take pictures.

My mum and dad worked in the pottery industry.

Sometimes when you're writing a song, it's work, and you really have to make sure you're kind of pounding out every little piece of it. And then sometimes you write a song, and you turn around and you go, 'How did we do that?'

I pour concrete. I'm a construction guy.

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

Consistency is very important when you're making films.

If I write a joke and it works, and it works consistently, that is gold to me.

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.

The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.

I'm really focused on continuing to make pieces that you can wear forever and with all the other things that you love.

Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.

The way I grew up, everyone knew how to cook, sew... carpentry.

I do believe there will always be a place for beautiful cookbooks that are real books.

You don't come into cooking to get rich.