Quotes About Craftsmanship

I draft quickly and then revise, a lot.

I use a quill pen dipped in India ink. I also like Faber-Castell brush pens and Pigma Micron pens. And I work on Duo-Shade board.

I've got an Avalon guitar - that's the company that used to be Lowden. They come out of Ireland, and they're like these folk kind of guitars. You can pick 'em, you can strum 'em - they're quite good.

I tend to spend quite a lot of time on the film scores that I do.

It's my privilege to work with an actor like Vikram who gets into the skin of the character he is playing, so much so that after the shoot it takes him quite some time to get back to his real self.

I don't go out. I work, go racing, then go to my shed and make things.

I really like Rag & Bone because they make simple pieces that last.

I'm proud to be a railway modeler.

I'm proud to be a railway modeler. It means more to me to be on the cover of Model Railroader than to be on the cover of a music magazine.

Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance.

As a lyricist, I'm really trying to raise my level of quality.

If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.

It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

I've always built furniture and done farm work.

I like Church furniture.

Reupholstered furniture can look fabulous.

I'm a master assembler of Ikea furniture, in case anyone wants to know.

For my first apartment, when I was first married, I went to the lumberyard and bought stuff and made couches. My then-wife made cushions. I was really very interested in furniture. I was in school for architecture, but I had to live, and making furniture was different from designing buildings, which I couldn't do for myself.

To be able to make furniture has always been a fantasy of mine.

I used to draw and design my own furniture in college but never had the means to build them.

I really do build furniture to be used, you see, to be lived with.

It is rare for a joke to emerge fully formed and it is worth grafting away until it is absolutely right. Though perversely too much work, too much thought, can destroy a gag completely.

I think in the same way when I'm cooking, when I'm gardening, when I'm choosing fabrics. It's a way of living.

I want to do films that challenge me. I want to do what the actors I look up to are doing - the Gary Oldmans and Daniel Day-Lewises.