Quotes About Craft

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Intellectual: One who knows no craft.

Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Intelectual: alguien que no conoce oficio.

The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar.

To paraphrase Ezra Pound, don't imagine that the art of prose is any simpler than the art of music; spend as much time developing your craft as a pianist spends practicing scales. 'Let the neophyte know assonance and alliteration, rhyme immediate and delayed, simple and polyphonic, as a musician would expect to know harmony and counterpoint, Pound argued in his 1913 essay, 'A Few Don'ts.

The art of sentence making comes down to experimentation, skill, and variety. Just because you can do the three-and-a-half-somersault tuck off the high board doesn't mean you must ditch the gorgeous swan dive. Good sentences can be short and muscular, and they can be long and graceful.

Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience.

Being funny is a gift, and, when done well, is an art form.

I've always been an actor, even when I was doing improv and my own version of stand up.

When you make an animated film, you make it over and over and over. We almost do ten versions of the film.

It's very hard to be a good actor, you know. It's easy to be cute.

I've been an actor for a very long time, and I've had the opportunity to do theater a couple of times.

I am not a person who just wants to be an actor. Do you know what I mean? I am an artist who wants to speak to people through his work: through his vessel.

These guys are just flying through the air and I'm capturing them in the split second and putting it into a work of art, via clay to the bronze.

The job of an actor is to bring the story to the audience via screen.

It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa.

Just because you have developed the craft on your instrument doesn't mean that you don't have the ability to be expressive emotionally on that instrument, or vice versa.

A music video is so different to doing a movie.

Shooting a music video sometimes can be a job.

I love video editing.

In theatre or in ballet, the ballerina always passes on what they know. It's a hands-on craft. You can't really learn the soul and the pathos of it if you just see a video. It has to be taught by someone who is in the know.

We didn't have music videos. You weren't an overnight sensation. You had to work at it and learn your craft: how to take care of your voice, how to pace your concerts, all that trial and error.

In college, I interned at a production company and spent a lot of time on sets. I love music videos and felt I could be experimental and hone my craft in that genre, so I started there.

Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view.

I have nine years of scholastic actor training, and what I've learned is that training does not an actor make. You have to have an artful way of looking at things. You have to have a certain point of view. And you get that point of view through experience.