Quotes About Craftsmanship

Bhutan is a very serene country with an incredible history. It has an incredible group of great artisans.

My family has always made clothes. Growing up I can remember sewing machines being everywhere.

I tote around that big ol' sewing machine with me everywhere I go.

Character actors have a long shelf life.

I always love long shirt dresses with hand painting on it. It's just wonderful.

It's nice to be in a show where it's not based on taking your shirt off.

What you don't think when you sit down to write a show is, 'How can I be shocking?' That question isn't interesting, it's all about, 'Is this funny, does it work?'

In my industry, a shirt and a shoe are still made the exact same way they were 80 years ago.

I'm kind of the shoe guy.

We will redo a shoe 15 times before we get it right, to get it where it should be and hopefully it will fit and look the way it should.

I sew my own shoes - I don't trust anyone else to sew the ribbons exactly how I like them.

A movie shoots six months for two hours of film.

I do not really shop. Most of my clothes I make. I dress simply.

I like shopping for ethnic wear.

With short stories, you can always see the whole, but it's just so hard to get everything you want into that small form.

It took me a year just to edit 'Shotgun Stories.' Actually, it took me two years to edit 'Shotgun Stories.'

I want to show people that tailoring has value, which I don't see anymore in men's fashion.

I think writing well takes a little bit of talent and an awful lot of work.

There are more ways to make 'Room' badly than well.

I think what we have at Atelier Crenn, which I think is good, is that the basics are very traditional.

Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor.

The writing for us is the hardest, but also the most important. You want to get to the next part of it, to production, but it doesn't matter how beautifully made it is if something's wrong with the story arc.

I love Meghna Gulzar's film making and her style of story telling. In her films, every character, small or big, is beautifully etched.

Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.