Quotes About Craft

I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting.

As an actor you should be able to store and recollect your experiences and work on them as an actor as and when required.

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

I research best practices and recipes for success and failure to craft personalised policies for my city.

When actors talk about research, they're just patting themselves on the back.

One of the joys about acting is researching.

I appreciate the craft in 'Bioshock' and 'Resident Evil,' and I've played all of them. But I also learned that I don't like playing them because I get really scared.

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

Both mediums, theatre and film, have really interesting sides to it that I really like to explore.

Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.

Making movies is great. It was like love at first sight; a whole new, different business. I can see why actors love it so much.

Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't see how they score, you don't see how they cast the rest of the movie.

To me what's most important when I'm signing a project is the character that I'm going to portray and whether it gives the opportunity to show different facets of my craft.

For me, food and music are very similar in that you create, you spend a lot of time making something, and it only lasts a few seconds or a few minutes.

I never went to school for writing, never took a writing class, but when you're in a room with David Simon and Ed Burns and Dennis Lehane and Richard Price, and they're going over something you've written, you learn what works and what doesn't.

Sometimes the simplest forms of music are the hardest to play. Especially for musicians that are accomplished.

Our greatest fear is fear of success. When we are succeeding—that is, when we have begun to overcome our self-doubt and self-sabotage, when we are advancing in our craft and evolving to a higher level—that's when panic strikes.

A pro views her work as craft, not art. Not because she believes art is devoid of a mystical dimension. On the contrary. She understands that all creative endeavor is holy, but she doesn't dwell on it. She knows if she thinks about that too much, it will paralyze her. So she concentrates on technique. The professional masters how, and leaves what and why to the gods.

pretending to do something when you're doing nothing is an art form in itself.

If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that.

Writing is a mysterious activity.

I've always thought a quilt held together with a woman's tears to be the strongest of all.

The penthouse bar had an even more commanding view, and craft cocktails named after local or formerly local writers and their books--- the Anne Rice blood orange martini, the Tsukiyama Samurai, the Christopher Moore Demon, the Joy Luck Cocktail.

When you're writing, you're creating something out of nothing ... A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of magic. [As quoted on WritersServices , 6 March 2012]