Quotes About Craftsmanship

Working with people like Deepti Naval and Siddharth Malhotra is always a delight because they understand the craft and the script is their topmost priority.

Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.

It was a privilege to work with Ballantyne, an iconic brand possessing such a rich British heritage. Ballantyne has a great appreciation of style and craftsmanship which truly complements the Matthew Williamson brand.

Making comedy is a privilege, so you should be doing something no one else can do. That's when it feels like art; it's a personal expression and it's being done in a unique way.

I find myself really privileged to be able to go in and look at a set that the likes of Hollywood can provide, and say, 'My God, look at the craftsmanship in this; look at the ambition in it, the scale of it.'

To have the privileged position of being the guy who is responsible for shaping the entire experience for an audience as opposed to being just one instrument in that orchestra, being an actor, it's all-encompassing.

It's a very different thing when you're creating the world as opposed to when you're just part of the world. I love the detail of it, the problem-solving of it, and I love working with actors.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

Editing is a meditative process. I enjoy it the most. I am not dealing with 200 people.

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

In France, I am the fifth artisan to produce his own chocolate, and the others have been doing it for a long time.

I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk.

I produce schnapps on my farm but I'm not fond of drinking it.

I still have my talent to produce and direct.

I'm a producer at heart.

As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality.

I like making sounds and putting it together, I'm not just a singer or a producer.

There's a difference between a beatmaker and a producer.

I think it's good that producers are showing more ways to show their artistry and be more the artist, you know? Not just the producer in the back making the beats.

A lot of dance producers aren't really musical, they don't care much about detail.

It's a lot of work that goes into producing and directing and all those kinds of things. It doesn't just happen. It's a lotta work. It's a lot more work than acting.

I would draw a really sharp distinction between creating and producing. I think that they're very different things.

The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.