Quotes About Craft

I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important.

A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.

Writing is hard. It takes commitment and determination and a good part talent. It's not an afterthought, an addendum - it's a career.

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality.

I always wrote. I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the '80s developing my craft as a writer.

It takes a lifetime of devotion to build your craft, your confidence, and the ability to sing and dance and act believably.

I love writing dialogue - it's when I really lose myself in my work. I love reading it, too, when it's good and rings true.

I think the way you make a movie dictates the movie that you make.

At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I'm known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.

What one's goal should be is just to become a better writer and to tell different kinds of stories.

Honestly, I feel pretty awed anytime I meet just about any writer. I get how hard it is to write and make a living from it, but there's also this almost magical force you need to tap into, and I'm amazed by anyone who can do it.

If I see an audition for a show or a movie, I'll send a tape in. I attack it. The whole time, I'm booking comedy, so no matter what, I always got that coming in. I'm always working on my craft.

I'd say writing songs is, for me, as much playing the tape recorder as it is playing guitar or writing words.

Many times, what people call 'writer's block' is the confusion that happens when a writer has a great idea, but their writing skill is not up to the task of putting that idea down on paper. I think that learning the craft of writing is critical.

Writing 'Mayanagri' was not an easy task.

Being an actor, your focus is just on your craft and how to make it better, but production is a much bigger task - putting everything together.

Filmmaking is no easy task.

A classic man is a distinguished man. He cares about taste and his craft. He's all about the simple model that I live by - eat, drink, be swanky, and have fun getting the job done. He makes sure that he's excellent in all things and that he cares about his neighborhood immensely.

DJing is like a great tasteful art form.

I've always admired like everybody's skill like to tattoo. Like I've actually tattooed my best friend before. This is an experience for sure. Like, if I will really like take drawing seriously, I would consider being a tattoo artist. Like I love to just watch guys perfect their craft.

I've always described parts as tattoos. For actors our tattoos are in the form of films.

My mom taught me how to sew when I was 2 or 3, so I've been sewing for as long as I can remember.

I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.