Quotes About Craftsmanship

I could not have written a novel if I hadn't been a journalist first, because it taught me that there's no muse that's going to come down and bestow upon you the mood to write. You just have to do it. I'm definitely not precious.

Some scripts you feel like everything is precious.

Writers, directors often can get too precious with their words.

I fell in love with pastry because I felt I could be much more creative. It's precise, and you don't have to kill anything.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

How precise you need to be when you're in a comedy, and the honesty you need and to have those two things meet up and have the execution just right, I always found very difficult.

Polanski was very precise. I think he still is.

I wanted to feel that precision and control and then try to apply it to tele. That's what I've looked for in my gear development through the years, and today, tele is very precise, very high-performance.

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.

As a professional, it pains me to watch a movie that is botched and amateurish. I prefer directors who have control of both their craft and their ideas.

The only person I never made a hat for was my mother because my mother didn't really - she preferred to make her own hats. I mean, she was intrigued by everything, but she didn't want one of my hats. She made her own.

My gratification in working comes from the preparation and the building of the character.

Even when I make pizza, I make it from the scratch and prepare the dough.

Film brings together framing and light and color and performance and music and all of that. To me, everything I've done in my life has been preparing me for filmmaking.

I am careful with my material and presentation.

People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents.

The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.

You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.

I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.

The world doesn't need any more pretty good songs.

I sew my own shoes. Other male dancers don't, but I like it one way, and I've learned to do it that way.

I think what made Dancing With the Stars' the number one show for so long, is that we take our craft seriously, we take our relationships seriously.

A lot of acting, as I grew up wanting to do, is kind of like magic... I'm not comparing myself to him in the least bit, but if you knew what Daniel Day-Lewis was doing every step of the way and what he was eating, I don't think when he popped up as Lincoln we would quite believe it.