Quotes About Craft

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing

Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time.

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.

Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.

I actually work at my craft, and I actually want to be the best in my category, and I want to be a true actress. And a lot of people just want fame, and there's a huge difference.

Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.

An actors' tribute to me is in his work.

If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do.

Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And when you're not writing, READ.

I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes or landscapes.

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

I'm foremost an actor. I feel embarrassed being compared to the guys who really work at it. I fake it, I make believe I know all about it, which is what you're supposed to do as an actor.

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.

For an actor to go to work every day is an extreme blessing.

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare

If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a writer even if you haven't published anything.

Study and know that we are always a student of the craft well after we've completed any course of study... and approach the work as a servant, not a star.

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.