Quotes About Craft

Songwriting is a big deal to me.

Of course, you can't teach songwriting. You can only encourage people to do it and help them to sort out for themselves what they want to achieve, and get a list of exercises together that improves the craft and gives them more access to the craft of writing good songs.

Songwriting is what I do, and there could be worse burdens to carry.

I lived in Nashville for about five years. It was almost like me going to college for my craft. I immersed myself in the songwriting community there. They embraced me, and I made some real friends but also learned so much.

Songwriting is telling short stories. But instead of 15 to 20 pages, it's three to five minutes.

Craft comes into acting later rather than sooner. I was somebody who had to learn through a process - a natural actor doesn't need to.

I did 10 years on 'Sopranos,' but the whole craft of acting is relatively new to me. I'm still learning that, and I'll be learning that forever.

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

In acting, I've found my soulmate.

Rahman sir keeps pushing himself. He keeps trying new things, whether it is his craft, music or sound... he is always learning. He looks for opportunities to learn, even from children.

I don't really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don't know what character is, really. Plot seems vaguely juvenile to me. It's all about language, it's all about how you apply it to the page.

It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.

I've been making movies a long time. I'm a professional at it. I'm not a professional at making soundtracks - that's not my job. My job is to put the right songs in the movie so the movie works the best it possibly can.

Those were some astounding lies, cub. And the very last one the most inspired of all. You have your father's talent for it.

Writing is a piece of cake. Editing is a slab of liver.

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

Art depends on luck and talent.

You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.

Il mio mestiere è scrivere delle storie, cose inventate o cose che ricordo della mia vita ma comunque storie, cose dove non c'entra la cultura ma soltanto la memoria e la fantasia. Questo è il mio mestiere, e io lo farò fino alla morte

Manier savamment une langue, c'est pratiquer une espèce de sorcellerie évocatoire »

I've always been a material-based actor. That's what I've done, the choices I've made - like a heat-seeking missile.

There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if you are in for the long haul, you'd be missing an enormous part of what being an actor is if you're not part of theater.

Journalism has become a form of idealism. It is no longer, first and foremost, function, craft, service - it is mission.

Modelling is completely different from acting. They are two skills that you can't compare.