Quotes About Craft

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

I'm pretty good at delivering my songs, but I just want to perfect the craft by creating melodies.

Comedy is not easy to begin with, but comedy that also dances with drama - it's so hard.

It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.

The darkroom is just the means to an end.

It usually takes about a year to write each book. I don't plan it that way. I don't set deadlines. If a book wants to take longer, it can.

I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.

My candle-making business gives me decent money.

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.

I am very good at decoration. I am maybe extremely good at decoration.

I'm a self-taught actor, which means that I had to learn everything on my own, as I wanted to know the craft deeper and deeper.

'The Wicker Man' for me, as an actor, was definitely the best film I've ever done.

I live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with.

I had to stop taking myself and the craft that seriously. Somehow I saw the bigger context of life. It's just a movie. What I wanted was to entertain and delight and put the audience on a nice ride.

As an actress, it's not only about looking good on camera, but being able to deliver the right emotions for the characters you play. This makes you more attractive on the screen. That's why I focus more on acting rather than my appearance.

Comedy is an art which is extremely difficult to deliver.

Being an actress is not about waddling around grinning on demand.

Each role demands the right actor. To play an artist, one must be an artist.

Money is very important to me, but its source is important too. As of now, I can say that I will never ever do films that demands me to sell my craft.

Being an actor, we're so dependent on the writers.

How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.

You never know the depth of an actor.

And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service. It's service. And I took that ethic and applied it to my writing craft.