Quotes About Craft

Editing is work, and it's hard to do while working on one's own writing.

The best and easiest lesson for me was to learn that writing is mostly hard work.

[Martin Scorsese ] basically works just like any other director. You work the scene, you try to find what's best in it and make it work. That's what it was like.

I took my work seriously, but not as a craft. More as a life.

I think substitution is a huge part of acting, but I don't personalise my work that much.

Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.

Sometimes I do work on a longer manuscript in tandem with one or two shorter pieces - whether it's a short story or an essay (though I don't write many of the latter).

I've been a comedian for a long time so writing and performing is a big part of what I do. If anybody's doing comedy they should also work on writing.

Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story work.

That is another reason this transition for me into soaps makes sense for me, because I would get to work at my craft every day. I would be able to play this very real character.

If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.

I try to only work with people whose craft I believe in.

With acting, you might have a month of very intense work, but youve got a lot of downtime as well.

It's always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work.

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

Directing a film is a lot of work.

You need to work at the craft of songwriting, but not only the craft. When I see people working both on themselves and the craft, and they combine those things...I just go, That's just fabulous.

I think an actor can actually gather moments, memories and emotions for his next character. So, it's a constant work.

The only literary men are those who have to work at it.

The greatest thing about writing a book is that at first it's all inchoate, but the more you work on it, the more the book teaches you its internal rules.

The caliber of actors I'm getting to work with and learn from on a daily basis is phenomenal for me as a developing actor.

We all work to succeed in whatever we choose to do in life, so every success only pushes me to do better and I am constantly trying to improve my craft as an actor.

A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration.