Quotes About Craft

Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.

It seems to me the big weakness in most films is the writing. You can learn directing, but you can't learn writing.

Weaknesses have a certain function in a poem... some strategy in order to pave the reader's way to the impact of this or that line.

I recognize that it is through the engagement with my craft - by recognizing an idea and drawing it out, building physical models, collaborating with experts, constructing the sculptures at urban scale, and maintaining them through years of weather and interaction with the public - that a new art for cities has become real.

When you're in the middle of writing a song, you can come up with this whole web of stuff only you know how to get through. That's very entertaining for me to do that.

When you get to Heaven, God points you to the all-Entenmann's craft service and says, 'You can eat all you want, and you don't gain any weight.'

I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.

Even great actors have to polish their skills and rejuvenate.

Theatre polished me as an artist.

When doing films, ones acting skills are polished, and the actor delivers a better performance.

For me, acting is like a pool you dive into. If you're lucky, you find what you need, then get out again.

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

It is a serious job being a portrait photographer, which is how I saw myself.

I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.

I feel like most actors just dig and dig and work and work in whatever way they do to try to do as much as they can to portray a character in the limited time they have to play it, whether it's six months or one month or one week of work, you know.

As an actor, I think the experience and the portrayal of the character is exactly the same. It doesn't make any difference what camera is capturing it. You have to do it with the same passion.

What's great about acting is that there's never a moment when you're like, 'OK, I got this, I understand this.' You're portraying life, and it's a craft that only gets better with time - kind of like playing a musical instrument: the more you get to play it, the better you are.

As an actor, you ask yourself what you can do to put yourself in a position where you can play that role.

Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.

Writing is possibly an art, but crime writing is definitely a craft.

I feel like the more I work on different songs and the more I work on my voice constantly... I always feel better after I post a cover. Even if it's doing the little 15 second covers, I'm working on my craft, and it's really good for me, and I feel good after I do it.

If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself.

I love writing. It's one of my favorite jobs. Of the things I get to do, I love sitting in a room and coming up with ideas, and I love going home and pounding them out.

Writing a script consumes so much of time.