Quotes About Craft

My first love and my first instinct are acting.

I'm not an instinctive actor.

You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

For an actor, if you're not doing a job, you can't just practice acting. Your instrument is your whole person.

It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I always wanted to play other artists. If I can't play an instrument, then I want to play a character that can. There is an artist behind everything, and I think that's beautiful.

An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them.

As an actor, your body is an instrument.

Disco B still rolls with me now. He's still doing his thing. He does clubs in different places. He was very instrumental in helping me perfect my craft.

Acting is a really insular thing.

Every part of it is important; the film comes alive when you edit it, the film comes alive when you write it, the film comes alive when you act it, and the same with the directing. They're all the most important part at the time and that's why I enjoy doing it, because you're creating a story and every part is a very integral part of it.

An actor matures with experiences, and the more the emotions he/she has been through, the greater the intensity of performances.

I think my best quality as a writer is the ability to craft complicated, nuanced, interesting characters.

Like every actor, I am always on the lookout for interesting characters.

To want to be an actor is enough - you don't need to tell us about it. The interesting person who comes with some life experience is always the person who is going to be chosen by me.

I like interiors as much as exteriors but 'interior designer' just sounds naff as a job.

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

I'm interested in the intersection of character and actor.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

I became famous almost before I had a craft.

Con una aguja de hacer calceta, ensartaría yo las lenguas murmuradoras.

Embrace constraint. What you get in return is the art and craft of editing your own life, weeding out what is and isn't necessary.

Blade He makes the weapons, I use them.