Quotes About Craft

To be with Derek Jacobi and Stellan Skarsgard, it's a master class in acting every day.

Acting meant so much to me.

It sounds quite mad, but once I've got a show up and running, walking out on stage is the easiest part of my day. All I've got to do is talk until they laugh and then I stop, let them laugh and talk. It's a bit like meditation really.

Theatre is like an actor's nectar, like how cinema is a director's medium.

Basically, I love to act. The medium is not important.

Movies are an editor's medium.

Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium.

Theatre is an actor's medium while a film is the director's.

Acting is acting, be it any medium.

I can put on my resume: 'Can play dead.'

I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.

I write 1,000-1,500 words. The next day, I rewrite it and add 1,000-1,500 words to the end of it.

I think all writers have a style, a particular voice and rhythm that you have to find.

Acting is not rocket science, but it is an art form. What you are doing is illuminating humanity. Or not.

I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.

For me, acting is sacred.

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it.

As an actor, I never go back and look at my work, anyway. The satisfaction comes in the doing.

Writing novels is so much more satisfying than writing television.

I cannot say that I know a lot about scales, but I can write songs.

I have actual acting scars.

Acting in a scene is easy.

You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.

Well I don't think of myself as like a horror or science fiction filmmaker. I just think of myself as a filmmaker.