Quotes About Craft

I'm just a character actor.

I don't want to do acting as a chore or a job.

A period film is a gift for a cinematographer.

I think there's escapist moviemaking, and we want to be captivated and taken away. If it's done right, you can craft an incredible film. There have been superhero films that I think are brilliant pieces of art.

In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.

I am incredibly passionate about craft but am just as passionate about supporting local craft companies.

My parents have truly gone above and beyond in not only supporting me but also encouraging me to follow my dreams. My dad's only wish was that I made sure to go to college for theatre and study my craft.

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

I suppose I like to think of myself as a film-maker.

I've always figured the only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer and longer until something happens - you know, until it finds its own plot - because you can't outline and then fit the thing into it. I suppose it's a slow way of working.

Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose.

Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.

My work is not about paint. It's about paint at the service of something else. It is not about gooey, chest-beating, macho '50s abstraction that allows paint to sit up on the surface as subject matter about paint.

To me, movies is just scratching the surface for the work. There are people who are so, so great at that.

Making records is not brain surgery.

I personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on a level and see how far you can go up, down or out emotionally. You have to balance the craft with spontaneity.

Writing in a strict form can surprise you.

'Sopranos' was a fascinating moment, just catching our whole culture by surprise, a fun ride to be on while I'm learning the craft.

People might be surprised to know how much I throw away. For every page I publish, I throw 10 pages away.

I was dealing with craft, and that's the surprising thing, the number of people who have literally broken down on our stage, because when you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.

Surrender the vert platonic bond tying your soul to mine craft, the sky fades a pink shadow cast.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all of the tricks and has nothing to say.

The only salvation for a writer is to write. If there is anything good in him, it will come out.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.