Quotes About Craft

The enemies of acting are mood and attitude and other general homogenized disruptive entities. Whereas acting is about action - doing - and unless you can figure out a way to craft in an imaginative reality to which you don't submit, you're going to be out of control. You'll flip out. The job is to be surprised.

It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.

I have been performing as long as I can remember, so I built my craft. People think I was discovered after the first show I played once I landed in L.A., and it just happened instantly - overnight. The truth is, I was performing wherever I could for five years.

I'm dead serious about my craft and just really serious about making music in itself. I take pride in making songs and albums where no two songs sound alike. That's the challenge and that's what it's all about, to keep it original and fresh and funky.

You can't generalise, of course, but there is a school of American acting where there is a kind of pride in the number of takes you can do.

All you need to focus on is your craft and how you act; and, of course, script selection, which is a primary reason for anybody's success because, in today's day and age, everyone is talented irrespective of fields.

It's easy to think that craft can't change but important to remember that all craft process was at some point new, at some point challenged convention - not to be contrary, but enabled by some breakthrough, some newly discovered principle, or sometimes some wonderful accident.

Acting is and will always be my priority.

In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private.

Acting is actually private.

I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.

It's a real privilege to make movies.

This is a privilege, what we get to do. To be able to tell stories. It's a luxury. So I have a business-like approach to it, the same way I had with football.

I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you.

In the world of literature, I see prizes as more of a duty to the craft itself, rather than as something for the individual.

I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.

I've always loved the editing process.

Well, there are three different processes of making a film, of course. They're sort of re-written three times. You write it to start with, and then you shoot it and you re-write it while shooting and you sort of re-write it as you edit.

A producer is someone who actually calls the shots. An executive producer is just a guy that eats more food at craft service.

I consider myself more of a producer and a musician than a DJ.

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

I'm not a writer, director or producer.

For a producer, I've been behind the scenes my whole career.

Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.