Quotes About Craft

My graphic design skills are superior to a lot of other things I can do; I use it as a part of my tool kit.

As an actor, my body is my tool to flesh out the roles I play.

As a filmmaker, every tool you get to tell the scene better is important.

A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.

As an actor, you are always someone else's tool. You can have a connection with them, and you can share their point of view, but ultimately, you are helping them reflect.

For me, choosing between fiction and nonfiction is really only about picking the right tool for the job.

The way a Dibakar Banerjee conceptualizes a film is different from a David Dhawan! I've worked with both, since as an actor I am just a tool in the director's hands.

What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses.

Well I think effects are tools.

My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors.

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?

One of the things I like to do during an 'overhaul' revision is bust out my highlighters and colored pens. Tools like these make me feel like a real writer.

On the craft level, writing for children is not so different from writing for adults. You still have to have a story that moves forward. You still have to have the tools of the trade down. The difference arises in the knowledge of who you're writing for. This isn't necessary true of writing for adults.

As an actress, my best tools are my emotions and expressions.

As an actor, you always use the tools of who you are and your experience of what you have to offer.

The things I discovered when writing 'Line of Duty' were the tools you have available to write a thriller.

I think some actors are very smart and have the tools. They know how to disconnect themselves from the characters, but I think for a lot of them, it's very difficult.

Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader.

I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again.

I want to do more movies. I feel like it's a totally different skill set than there is to theater. It's much more internal.

Writing is controlled substance. It acts with the least mediation and strongest effect.

Cooking was a skill, I thought; an art form. In our country, we appreciated the end result, but not the craft, perhaps because we didn't have fancy names. Paring was "cut it." Julienne was "cut it well." Chopping was "cut it well well," and so on till you had puree, which would probably be "mash it." And, if anyone was measuring any ingredient in a kitchen, it meant that they really didn't know what they were doing.

Being a writer is a good, good thing.

Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.