Quotes About Craft

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

If you ask me, we actors have this amazing ability to detach ourselves from an emotion and just do it for the camera.

When I'm in south Florida I'm training, resting, training. I'm working on my craft out here, very tediously. That's what I come out here for.

I learned to not separate writing, shooting, and editing, it's all sort of one big mess of creative output.

A lot of people know that how I came to become an actor, but not many people know that how hard it was for me in those initial years. Being an outsider, I had no insight about the ways of the craft.

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

I do get very involved in making a scene work without giving too much thought about how it affects the overall, which I think is hard to know in any case.

It's true that Apollo 10's lander was overweight. Late in the craft's development, it became clear that its ballooning weight was endangering the whole mission.

If you don't write with the reader in mind, you are not a writer, period.

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

Shortly, some pipeline worker or shipfitter would slow down.

Books don't need to be published," Lars Högström said. "The main thing is that they should be written.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music the words make.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

Camouflage is the most interesting of all the arts.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important.

Art is not emotion. Art is the medium in which emotion is expressed.

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.