Quotes About Craft

Bruce Lee took his craft very seriously, just as my dad took his stuff very seriously. I just loved Lee's attitude.

Most craft is, you know, terrible, absolutely terrible, so I don't like the word, or the word 'artisan' either.

You know, at the end of the day, all you can do is work at it, perfect your craft, come in with a great attitude and just respect everybody in the building.

I don't sit at home and craft a joke.

As you get older, we have more opportunities, more things going on in our lives that we take it away from basketball and our bodies. If you continue to put the same energy into your body, into your craft, I think you'll be all right.

I think trolling is a sort of art form, a bit of a craft.

I have always felt responsible for every character I played, devoting myself to learning everything about the craft.

I love well-produced stuff. The craft and the art of production is something I really, really love.

You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.

Making music and writing kind of come from the same creative place.

The creative process for a musician is very different than for a filmmaker. I have an idea, and I can pretty much execute it.

I've only ever taken a playwriting class, but I like creative writing and writing screenplays.

For a stage actor to be there with the words and the creator of the words - it doesn't get much better than that.

There's an elusive element to comedy, but nobody gets it for free. That's why comedians seldom criticise each other.

I think that I had read so much fiction that the craft itself sort of sank into me. I didn't read any 'how to' books or attend any popular-fiction-writing classes or have a critique group. For many years into my writing, I didn't even know another author. For me, a lot of reading was the best teacher.

I don't have an 'actor cry.'

The average scene in a film, you have to shoot it 15, 20 times. That means you got to laugh or cry 15, 20 times.

As an actor, I love to play a good crying scene.

You know, what is so curious about being a director is that you never get on anybody else's set and see how they do things.

I am a singer and dancer, and I've been perfecting it for a lot of years.

I started working on stage as a dancer when I was four; by 14 or 15, I knew I wanted to study the craft of acting.

You should make something. You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what it is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, 'I did that.'

I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way that is not linear or chronological at all, even with the short story. I will just be writing bits and pieces, and then when I have all the pieces on the table, that for me is when it feels like the real work begins.

I see similarities in the sports I played growing up in the sense of how I tackle a role when I get a job. A lot of effort goes in on an individual basis. There is a lot of time spent by yourself working on your craft and what you have to do. But, at the end of the day, you're there to serve the movie just like you would the rugby team.