Quotes About Craft

For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.

Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

Filmmaking is a real craft.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

Filmmaking is a very serious job, and I want to concentrate on that.

I just love the process of filmmaking.

A novel is both a story and a piece of writing. A movie is a story and a piece of filmmaking.

People don't know what filmmaking is even after they have made ten films.

Filmmaking seems more difficult but theatre comes with its own challenges.

I love filmmaking as a process and acting is one element that is dear to me.

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don't censor yourself, you end up with what you're most concerned about, but you haven't filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

I confess, I'm one of those actors who finds it incredibly hard to divorce myself and my performance from the work itself.

Derek Jacobi is probably our finest actor.

I would never finish my home work but I was good at drawing and craft.

I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?

My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.

I always say my first job is my building trade. The rest comes and goes.

My first love is acting, but dancing comes naturally to me.

Filmmaking, it has been my first love.

Acting is my first love.

When people ask me, 'Are you a singer?' I say, 'No, I'm not a 'singer' - but I love the craft of singing,' going in and finding out what that means or why the hell I'm singing in the first place. My thing is really the craft of it.

I take to acting like a fish to water.

When you first come in the NBA, you have a lot of conversations about saving your money, financially educating yourself, not just trusting whoever it is handling your money, not just having those meetings once a year, and not really putting the effort into learning the same way you learn your craft on the court.