Quotes About Craft

Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience.

I don't choose parts. I choose filmmakers. I'm done trying to make a statement with a character. What happens is, I craft a performance from the beginning to the end of the character. Then I release it to the director, and he interprets what I gave him.

It's all very well to say this or that on Twitter and Facebook, but ultimately, if you are a musician, it is going to carry more weight if you make your statements through your craft.

Even if I was playing the keyboard in an orchestra, or a radio jockey playing music at an FM station, I would have been the happiest person. So, for me, all this... being a music composer and getting appreciated for my craft... it is a bonus. It is God's gift.

I think part of being an actor is staying private.

You're going to a bunch of auditions, and most of the time you're just getting denied, but just staying in there and keeping my head and being determined helped. Growing is what's challenging; you have to constantly practice your craft.

I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites, which means these are generally films that I saw when I was a kid; anything you see in your formative years is more powerful, because it really stays with you forever. The second category is films that I saw while I was learning the craft of motion pictures.

One thing that stays the same is my passion for music. Other than that, I've become more dedicated. I think that I really work much harder than I ever did when I first started at my craft; I'm more dedicated, and I have become a perfectionist.

I now know how to steal a watch when someone's wearing it. It's an excellent talent to have.

The short story, it's not a step on the way to becoming a novelist.

I'm not a dedicated writer in the sense of Stephen King.

I don't know why all these actors think going to a gym or riding horses or learning how to fight are the steps to becoming an actor.

No good workman without good tools.

I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.

writing a novel is buttering warm toast, while writing a history is herding porcupines with your elbows.

Every story needs to be told in just the right way.

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

I'm an actor because I love acting, and my romance with this craft called acting is too intense. I'm in this business for a very selfish reason, and that is me, and nobody else. The audience loving it is by chance.

I consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer.

I'm really not interested in showing me or playing me. My gift as an actor, given to me, is to be able to become other people.

I don't remember ever not knowing about acting.

I like hearing other writers just about the way they approach writing. It gives me energy for my own work. It's weird; I'm always taking notes about fiction when I'm listening to people talk about craft.

When I was, like, 18, that's when I started to really take my own craft seriously and just noticed people were enjoying it. And when I put out my first mixtape, that's when I realized I could make this a career.

It feels great when people talk about your craft and you get noticed for it.