Quotes About Craft

it is only a very rare artist that is as good as his art.

I really love being a character actor. I have to say I wish it were a little easier. There are still a lot of things that I don't get, like I do wish I had more of my own.

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

I love physical comedy. Comedy that comes from an emotional place is amazing too and lets me develop in a new way as an actor.

Learn to love the data and, for heaven's sake, write well.

Acting was my first love.

I love song writing, so I'm always happy to write for other musicians.

I just know that I love to write songs, and I have for a long time.

I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process

Writing is a great love of mine.

I love that there's a beginning, middle and end to a film and you can craft what the whole journey is going to look like.

Most of my movies are indies. The best scripts I can find are independent films. But I love big-budget movies, I love craft services!

Love is easy, and I love writing.

I always go back and do theater. I love it. It keeps an actor improving in a way, it sort of keeps your craft alive, if that makes sense.

I love actors, and I'm passionate about the creative process of acting and filmmaking.

When I speak of life and love as expanding with age, sex seems the least important thing. At any age we grow by the enlarging of consciousness, by learning a new language, or a new art or craft (gardening?) that implies a new way of looking at the universe. Love is one of the great enlargers of the person because it requires us to take in the stranger and to understand him, and to exercise restraint and tolerance as well as imagination to make the relationship work.

The unsaid words pushed roughly against the thoughts that we had no craft to verbalize, and crowded the room to uneasiness.

Easy reading is damn hard writing." —

What I will say is that you have to exercise your writing muscle. Write every day. Get better at it. Read a lot of good books. As a professional writer, I force myself to write when I don't feel like it. I don't wait to feel inspired. It takes discipline and grit and sacrifice to be able to bring a book out to the world. It's so much work, and it's very difficult, but it is also the most fun I've ever had. I love making things up. I love amusing myself.

Ethics and aesthetics are deeply intertwined. Art, beauty, and craft have always drawn on the self-organizing 'wild' side of language and mind. Human ideas of place and space, our contemporary focus on watersheds, become both models and metaphors. Our hope would be to see the interacting realms, learn where we are, and thereby move towards a style of planetary and ecological cosmopolitanism.

My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of time contemplating endings. The final ending is usually arrived at simply by intuition.

Comedy and drama are like two different sports; they both require athleticism but they're different.

I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does.