Quotes About Craft

Comedy is tough. It is a serious business.

Standup is a tough job and a gritty job.

Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.

All I ever cared about was actors - toughest job in this business.

As everyone knows, comedy is the toughest emotion to handle. Everything about it is difficult - writing, directing and acting.

Making a record and being a touring artist is about cooperation between spirit, craft, emotion, and focus.

Anyone who takes the craft of songwriting seriously I radiate towards. Spending time with Daryl Hall was a dream come true. I picked his brain a lot because Hall And Oats is timeless.

A lot of times, you see everyone's highlight reels because of social media. You don't know the work that went into getting to that point. This is something that's going to take time, hard work, and you have to be dedicated towards your craft.

Directing myself definitely made me a better actor. And, you know, I think actors have the best track record when they turn to directing. Writers, too. I knew how to direct actors because I've been there and I know what I like.

I'm used to making songs; that's how I learned to make music. My structures will always be more like pop songs than dance tracks.

A director, I forget who, told me that it takes 30 years to make an actor. And I believe that. You have to learn your craft, learn your trade - and also you have to live a life and experience things.

Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.

Writing songs is a trade like anything else.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match things up.

I wanted to tell him so. Find the right words, string them together in the ideal way, knowing that here they would have the best chance of sounding perfect.

We're all in this together - when one writer succeeds, all writers succeed. I love discovering new authors. I think we need to take care of each other and talk about craft and nurture talent.

The most crucial thing is to learn the craft: how to string sentences together, how to make your dialogue sound like real people, how to properly pace a story, how to develop interesting characters.

The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.

The truth is that no matter how many retakes you do, each will be different and that is the nature of any creative medium. There's no such thing as perfection.

Two characters and sexy banter do not a book make, damn it.

If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words.

Writing is a supernatural thing.