Quotes About Craft

You have to be selfish to be an actor.

The thing that most interests me about writing - there are lots of things, but the thing I can't do without - is the hit of happiness a lovely sentence delivers.

I still don't know whether I know how to write a sentence.

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.

I need to go where people are serious about acting.

It's just acting. I take acting seriously but up to a point.

I really take acting seriously.

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

Of course there are some actors that are better than others and performances that are better than others, but they're always embedded in the greater film. They are mediated through the work of so many other people: the director directs, the lighter sets the scene, the editors edit, the music gets put to it.

I've been lucky to be educated by watching the old and the great movies, working with good filmmakers, and being educated on sets.

I am a good sewer. My mother taught me how to sew.

I like shaped things. I like shape in things, and I do overshape things, it's true.

When I'm shooting, I don't care who the star is. I have an actor playing a part, and I'm serving the script, not serving anyone's career.

I always enjoy shooting for all my films.

A movie shoots six months for two hours of film.

I like short stories.

Having grown up watching my father direct films and having worked with him and my brother, I know how films are made, how shots are taken.

Show business is all I know, but I love it.

I'm not good at doing show business; I'm a theatre person. I don't reveal anything about my life.

I would like to be good at macrame. I look at them in awe.

Stand-up is my baby.

Writing is one of those jobs that everyone has an opinion on. I don't think this is a bad thing.

I love acting, but the star part is not my bag.