Quotes About Craft

The more you know about your country, your people, you invest better in your craft.

In fact, I'm very grateful that we were given that time to invest in ourselves and our craft before we were exposed to the public.

For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.

We think craft is important, and the irony has always been that horror may be disregarded by critics, but often they are the best-made movies you're going to find in terms of craft. You can't scare people if they see the seams.

Acting is a craft to me: I just think you get better the more you do it. And then the irony to that is your doing it is not in your control. If it was up to most actors, we'd work all the time, and we'd always get better. But it's not in our control, so we have to wait to be given parts to do.

To make a good film is an art. Gender is irrelevant when it comes to craft of filmmaking.

An actor is an actor irrespective of age.

They call me the Magic Man because I'm a classy fighter, a master of my craft, a good-looking Italian kid from Brooklyn who came through a dark and gritty life to find something magical.

I don't say, 'Francis Ford Coppola, what a wonderful Italian-American director.' I judge him based on his film, his craft, his art. That's the way I feel I should be dealt with in this industry.

I love Italy, and that's where I make my own shoes. But the French really do respect designers. Italy is totally different; footwear is an industry. The shoes are all about craft and luxury. French shoes are more about straight lines, and they are way more geometric.

I have a huge amount of respect for all Japanese designers because I think there is consistency and respect to craft.

If you have the opportunity to watch Nathan Fillion or Jim Carrey do a scene, it's like getting a Ph.D. in acting.

As an actor just learning the craft, you literally do a scene with Jimmy Gandolfini, and you walk away a better actor.

Acting is everybody's favorite second job.

For me, acting is not a job. It is something I love. I don't do these things for awards or rewards. I do them because I love challenges.

I look up to actors. I look up to Robert DeNiro, I look up to Johnny Depp, I look up to Al Pacino, I look up to run-of-the-mill really good actors. I love watching movies, and I love watching other actors and learning from them.

An editor does not just join shots. He creates emotions out of the shots.

Directing a movie is serious, it's not a joke.

The hardest part of comedy is writing the jokes, and the second-hardest part is telling the jokes. To me, everything else is significantly easier.

There is no 'magic water' that you can rub on a script to make the jokes funnier.

What's strange is how many beginning writers seem to think that grammar is irrelevant, or that they are somehow above or beyond this subject more fit for a schoolchild than the future author of great literature.

Art depends on luck and talent.

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

That's the thing with good poets. They structure and decide and re-write and insert, but some of the magic comes from a place beyond intention.