Quotes About Craftsmanship

I hope I am the antithesis of disposable fashion.

I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.

Art is anything people do with distinction.

I'd say probably the most expensive costumes I've ever made were the costumes in 'The Planet of the Apes,' because of the research and development that went into them and the amount of layers.

You don't have to make things which are just expensive.

Just because something is less expensive shouldn't mean it is less well designed.

When something is well-crafted, you know it, and the enjoyment comes from experiencing it.

I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.

'Gone-Away World' was a shotgun blast, an explosion out of the box I'd put myself into writing film scripts. 'Tigerman' is shorter, tighter, more crafted.

I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.

When I do a mask, I do try to put a lot of character and a lot of expression into the sculpt.

I try to make films, not movies. I've never liked the expression 'movie', but it sounds elitist to say that.

When you're playing in front of people, everything is external. It's all going from you out to an audience. When you're in a studio, it's very internalised, it's going from the air through you into this meticulously crafted, layered piece of work.

As far as the creative side, the more I do this, the more I know that it's all about the writing. We don't always celebrate that enough, but without the writing, you can't do much. You got on a film sometimes, and it's sort of half-written, and they expect and think that the actor's job is to bring the extra part and the good part. It's not.

Record making is an extraordinary experience.

Daniel Day-Lewis is extraordinary; I think he may be one of the best actors ever that we've worked with.

Well we took it apart scene by scene. We examined every sentence, every full stop, every comma. He has a most wonderful eye for detail, Roman, and you know, he's a very good artist.

The big difference between couture and ready-to-wear is not design. It is the fabrics, the handwork, and the fittings. The act of creation is the same.

It's much more difficult to make an unbound book than a bound book, because the factories aren't set up to make an unbound book.

I always say that I'm a filmmaker, not a factory. I don't have to churn out films every six months.

In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through - if it is labored, it fails.

You can't fake being able to cook well.

A lot of my pieces have involved teamwork, but hopefully they've inspired people to make things - that inspiration would be a great legacy.

If I was a stone mason or if I was a painter or building bridges or whatever, there's going to be some wear and tear on your body and your brain. And that's just the way it is.