Crafts Quotes - Page 14

There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.

Never forget that you are practicing a craft with certain principles.

Things in motion sooner catch the eye than what not stirs.

I'd so much rather have exciting architecture that causes one to stop, breathe, and reflect on the potential of the human mind, the craft, and exploring things.

Well, you're in a theater and it's 24 shots a second, your face, your body, your voice, and it's your craft, the way you earn your living, and it's indelible. It's not like writing a script - I write as well - I can't do another draft, it's done.

I introduced myself to Scorsese and I said, "If you need someone to do craft services, I'm there."

What one wants to do with stories is screw them up.

That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.

I am not an artist and never have been. Rather I am like a craftsman and feel very close to the mediaeval artisans who produced their work anonymously and who, along with their apprentices, had a true feeling for the physical materials they were working with.

When you talk about painters and you talk about painters painting masterpieces, there is no painter who painted only one painting and that was a masterpiece. You have to do a whole bunch of paintings to get to the place of mastering your craft.

Look if you like, but you will have to leap.

It's harder to work with people who are not as dedicated to their craft. It also leaves you a better actor when you finish the project, since you always feel like you've learned something.

Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.

Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.

The hard part is getting to the top of page 1.

Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, don't be precious about your first draft, it's an architectural blueprint to a whole building, be your own worst critic, confront your weakness and remember it's a craft.

There are a lot of considerations that come into play when you craft one of these 'Saw' scripts, and there's only so much you can put into them.

Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that.

When you create something out of thin air you have to know the human heart.

Wake the happy words.

Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line.

I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.

Make the drummer sound good.