Quotes About Craft

Acting is not my forte.

I've never found acting that difficult.

In 'The Greatest Showman,' I'm back doing VFX myself, allowing me to craft exactly how something looks, one frame at a time.

Frankly, acting doesn't scare me because I really enjoy it.

Writing's all I know. Frankly, I've never been able to do anything else.

We filmmakers are control freaks. For us, it's about bending the elements of a story into existence.

I think I'm able to do so much because writing is what I love to do. So, often when I have free time, I choose to write and edit.

I'm definitely a writer. I don't even know how to freestyle.

I find contentment in the craft of writing and fulfillment in self-expression.

As an actress, you have to give your character a life, a history, and make it full and rich for yourself.

Acting is a full-time job for me.

It used to be true that to succeed in the creative class, you had to move immediately to where the action was. It was how you made connections, how you got auditions, how you found an audience and funding and some attention for your craft. But not anymore.

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, Well, now it's writing time and now I'll write.

Looking back on it, I realize I did the right thing instinctively. You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

Children of Dune is an exciting, vividly imagined novel. It is Frank Herbert at the top of his craft. Brian Herbert Seattle, Washington January 11, 2008

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing. There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader.

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward…

What Joe and I love about the film industry, it's like the wild West. We're two guys who grew up a million miles away from the film business; it doesn't matter where you come from or where you go to school. All that matters is, can you find a way to practice the craft and express yourself in a way that people respond to.

Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?

Leadership does take work. And it should. If you aspire to be a leader, you ought to treat leadership as a craft, you ought to become a student of it, and you ought to work at it. And if you're not willing to work at it, well, you get what you give.

I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I've been pretty lucky in that I seem to have found people online who are willing to constructively tear it apart for me, and indicate its weaknesses.

The person whose work introduced me to the craft was Lorraine Hansberry. The person who taught me to love the craft was Tennessee Williams. The person who really taught me the power of the craft was August Wilson, and the person who taught me the political heft of the craft was Arthur Miller.