Quotes About Craft

My all-time favourite actor is Meryl Streep. She can do anything and everything. She's so good in 'Sophie's Choice.' She changes her accent so well, which is something actors in India don't do although we should, so that we can be more authentic to our craft.

When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.

I'm not into that method acting thing. I just turn up, say my lines and go home.

A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were.

Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting.

I am not into method acting.

I'm not a method actor, but I'm a big research kind of actor.

I don't know if I'm a method actor.

I'm a method actor.

Every actor comes with their own experience, method, methodology.

I get the beginning. I get the end. Then I write the middle. That's how I do it.

My foundation in acting has been serious theatre: Albert Camus, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare. It's really the best medium to learn the craft.

Film was nothing like television; there was a craft to it, and I realized how much hard work was needed. It was not some mindless, two-bit job that only requires you to look good.

There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.

I know my mindset. I know how hard I work at my craft.

Easy reading is damned hard writing.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

My funny old brain, like those of many poets, has always done its best work sideways, seeking out tricky enjambments and surprising slant rhymes to craft lines capable of pulling their own weight.

Andrew created an amazing thing in my life. I had never thought about songwriting. He made me learn the craft, and at the same time I realized, yes, I am good at it. And slowly this whole other world opens up, because now you're not just a player, or trying to play like somebody else. It isn't just other people's expression. I can start to express myself, I can write my own music. It's almost

One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience

People who work creatively usually have something in common: they love the media they work with.

That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn't realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera.

She that with poetry is won Is but a desk to write upon.

When you use craft to leave the virtual world of the screen and instead begin to work in more complex ways with the physical world around you, you're living truer to your primal potential. Craft makes us human, and in doing so, it can provide deep satisfactions that are hard to replicate in other (dare I say) less hands-on activities.