Quotes About Craftsmanship

I really love Daniel Day-Lewis. I think he's the best.

Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the greatest actors of our age; he's like Olivier. He's one of those people who can take you into a place where no one else can take you.

Daniel Day-Lewis - he's a man, obviously, but I really admire his work.

When I saw John Turturro in 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' I realized that was the kind of actor I wanted to be.

I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to.

Dave Filoni is a bit of a magician. Nothing is by accident.

David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.

Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had.

You know the way there are two kinds of actors - the De Niro kind who's always De Niro, and then somebody like Daniel Day-Lewis, who transforms himself eerily? Well, I aim to be the Daniel Day-Lewis kind of writer. I don't have a house style.

The difference between one writer and the other, or one director and the other, is the way he deals with a scene.

I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

To write anything decent, it's hard. Anything you want to be good is hard.

There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.

My dad's an amazing carpenter and he does painting and decorating.

I'd love to create my own stuff. I've always written stuff, but it would be nice to have my hand a little deeper in the clay, so to speak.

I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines and have my work done on time and to make it the very best it could be.

I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.

The mark of a writer is to make a story as likely as possible, and I've done my best to deliver authentic atmosphere.

I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver.

I know how demanding the process of creation is.

Money is very important to me, but its source is important too. As of now, I can say that I will never ever do films that demands me to sell my craft.

There is no denying the aesthetics of a well-made, well-loved book.

We have a whole art department on 'Billy on the Street.' We give away dioramas that we've made.

I liked the whole process of creating on set. It's almost like creating magic. The work that the camera guys are doing at the same time, the lighting... all of the people working in their departments to make one thing.