Quotes About Craft

I am not professionally trained as an actor.

Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code.

The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.

Do you want to be an actor, or do you want to be a celebrity? I made that decision when I went to Juilliard. I wanted to be an actor. So, if I get the opportunity to be an actor and do some cool, fun and interesting projects, I'm going to do that.

Irene Nemirovsky was a prolific writer punctiliously devoted to her craft.

As an actor, I can only do my job well, but in a movie there are a lot of other things that matter too - like how it is edited and promoted and the works. Those are not in my hand.

Chris Messina is amazing, and he's so serious - he's, like, a proper actor! He's got craft! I love to watch him. But not in a creepy way.

It takes time to write a script and properly make the film and edit it.

I think my concerns are the same as every actor. Can I find this character and make it come to life properly?

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.

'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose.

There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it's the only place where you even are a writer.

I don't like slapdash careless prose, and if I saw myself doing it, I would give up writing altogether.

I love writing prose. I really love writing prose. It's very pleasurable for me.

Prosthetic makeup is always frustrating.

It proved to me, though, that comedy is so much harder.

Listen, I like great actors. You can be a movie star without being a great actor - this has been proved several times - and I like my casts to have great actors. Acting is more important to me than being a star.

Literature is the right use of language irrespective of the subject or reason of utterance.

All good writing is like swimming underwater and holding your breath.

El hacerse de reputación, pues, es arte que requiere tramoya y bambalinas.

To live is to crochet according to a pattern we were given. But while doing it the mind is at liberty, and all enchanted princes can stroll in their parks between one and another plunge of the hooked ivory needle. Needlework of things … Intervals … Nothing …

Ars est celare artem.

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

The scientist has the habit of science; the artist, the habit of art.