Quotes About Craftsmanship

I'm not an artist. I'm a fashion designer of clothes.

I don't like fast editing.

There's so many movies, they're just like fast food you consume them and you can't even remember what you just ate. I don't want to make those kinds of movies. I want to make the slow food of movies.

Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.

I really don't want to go to work every day convincing myself of what I'm saying. I want the material to make me a better actor; then I try to return the favor to the material.

Each feature I make is my focus at that time.

I got fed up with academia and decided I would rather be a carpenter.

People are fed up with mass production.

I come from the school of thought that feels that if you can shoot film, you should shoot film.

That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.

I take them both seriously - I don't particularly want to be an 'actor-musician.' I want to play the great challenging parts, to be right for the part, rather than just, 'Oh, he can play the fiddle.'

Maybe this is wrong, but I feel like I craft my songs carefully enough that I still find that fifteen years after having written one, it still works for me - I'm not cringing.

When you don't have to worry about the financial side, you can truly concentrate on the craft. You can truly concentrate on the fights you really want to have. You have that freedom and it's extremely important especially when you have a family and you have to provide.

I don't just like fillers, and I never put a filler on a record. I mean, I want every song on every album that I do to be a potential single.

You get so deep into something when you are filming, it's almost like writing it again when you are in the edit.

Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.

I'm a filmmaker first, nothing else matters.

I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors.

I am a serious filmmaker, and I see the whole process of filmmaking more as a piece of art.

Stop-motion has limitations, any form of filmmaking does, but stop-motion has a lot of limitations.

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

Sudhir Mishra is one the finest directors; he knows how to manipulate an actor's emotion, sensibilities and expressions.

I think there's not a lot of real filmmakers. There are only a few people who make real cinema. I can count them on my fingers.

You can sand something forever. You can keep working on it. All the arts are like that: there's no magical finish line. You get sick of working on it or you walk away.