Quotes About Craft

People, certainly in the U.K., look down on screenwriting as an art form, but I love the discipline of it. Next to the bagginess of novel writing, it almost feels like a martial art.

In theatre there is a certain discipline that you have to follow, and you have to be experienced to be performing in front of a live audience. It is satisfying to me.

Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.

I want to discover more things about acting.

So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.

Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.

The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.

You can assist another director and learn the ropes of the craft over the years, but becoming a director is about finding your own voice, so you've got to experiment.

It's hard to talk about acting because I don't think it's quite as explicit as a lot of people might think. And that's probably the best thing about it.

There is always an element of play in form, however 'serious' the expression.

I never really think of acting and directing as being separate; they are just different expressions of the same thing.

I love acting. Anchoring and dancing have come to me because of acting. I came here to be an actor. All others are just an extension of it.

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.

Too many writers get into that gross-'em-out factor.

Everybody has auditioned and failed. You learn from that. It's how you learn your craft.

I started doing theatre with Satyadev Dubey at Prithvi and I had to start from scratch. I had fallen in love with the craft of acting by then.

I ended up falling in love with the whole movie-making experience.

When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.

The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone... means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.

Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.

A writer should never mark the page with their own tears.

My attention is more on the technical process of filmmaking; I like to observe cinematography and direction.