Quotes About Craft

As I got older, I went to school. I started doing plays, I learned about the craft of acting, and I started to love acting for different reasons. I think I started to love acting because it brought me closer to people and made me more compassionate.

Acting is the most difficult job in the world.

Writing is a difficult thing.

Comedy is a very difficult thing to do.

People have been declaring stop-motion dead for a generation. But living in the digital age, people appreciate the art of craft, or working with your hands.

I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it's just easier.

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

Directing is much more satisfying to me than acting.

But I didn't know much about directing a movie.

The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.

I love writing. I think writing and directing go hand in hand.

I think like an actor when I'm acting, and I think like a director when I'm directing.

I don't know what directing actors is all about apart from just casting well and then shaping their performances a bit, you know.

Directing films is easier said than done. The job needs a lot of sensibility to put many things in place.

When you're a comic doing a special, it's like you're directing your first movie.

Writers are first directors. When directing our own scripts, we would have a better vision and clarity than directing the stories penned by others. I personally think that a writer's job is tough than a director's.

As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.

I don't think enough directors know enough about editing.

I'm very interested in directing actors - many directors direct cameras.

I guess once you've been acting for a long time, you glean the great bits of good directors and the bad bits from other directors, and you know the way that you would like to be directed.

I just think the less you know about an actor, the more serious you'll take them as an actor because they will disappear a little bit.

I really love my chosen craft. No matter whether it's disappearing or disappeared from the mainstream, that's really been where my mind and heart is.

Craft and art and discipline in what you do will make you happy.

Art can't be taught; passion can't be taught; discipline can't be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an art and a craft.