Quotes About Craftsmanship

What normally we see is the finished product, someone's performance on screen, but behind the scenes, a lot goes into it.

I try as much as possible to give you a great basic product and what comes out, I feel, is really amazing.

What you do, you don't think of as a product.

Good production is like a beautiful marriage. It makes a happy home.

If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.

The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production.

I think, with production, I pay very close attention. 'Cause that's my favorite thing in music. That's the whole drive. That's the reason.

The production must be faithful to the line. If the production fails, my work fails.

Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a 'profession.' There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman. The artist is an exalted craftsman.

Being a musician is a noble profession.

Basically, I would be happy with any profession where I got to be creative and make things.

I always wanted to be a good actress and a serious actress. I wasn't in the profession to, quote-unquote, meet the stars.

From my first days in training, I had a knack for the nuts and bolts of my profession.

I do like directing other people's material.

Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right.

The directing is something that is incredibly satisfying to me and challenging to me because it's asking me to draw on everything I've been able to absorb over all these years of acting and having all this set experience.

Directing is so dope to me, man, 'cause it doesn't necessarily have to be your material. You're making someone else's material come to life. There's something amazing about that.

The sensibility I brought to directing was similar to what I bring when I write.

Acting and making music are quite complementary. Acting relies on someone else's writing and direction; writing music or lyrics doesn't. But they are both creative and personal in completely different ways.

A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.

Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.

A lot of comedy films, there's the opinion, 'Well, if it's funny, put it in.' But I think you have to be more disciplined than that.

When I was at the Cordon Bleu things took hours and hours and hours to make. And they were beautiful dishes - and I know how to cook that way - but I was like, 'no one is cooking like this.'

One of my favorite dishes is this alfredo I make, and I make the sauce from scratch. I love making everything from scratch.