Craft Quotes

I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.

I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's a craft involved in storytelling, and it's a different kind of craft. But yes, someday I will do that. It just might be awhile.

You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft.

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.

Craft is part of the creative process.

The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft.

I've got to see my movie to see how I'm acting, see what little things I can learn about my craft.

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.

Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.

I take my craft very seriously.

Once the anchor of reason has been cut, one's craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler.

The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.

If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.

I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

If you have a great business, if you're great at your craft people should be coming in there. It shouldn't be this secret.

A lot of people are surprised to hear that an actor studied for two or three years. They take the craft for granted and wanna just wake up and be an actor.

As I get into it more, I want to grow as an artist, as an entertainer, and basically perfect my craft.

Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.

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

You just want to hone your craft, whatever it may be.

At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence.

I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.

I'm really proud to have been in The Craft. I will always be that chick from The Craft, no matter what I do.

When you make work, your goal might not be first and foremost to have as many people as possible see it, but it might be more about honing your craft as a storyteller or making art, but, there's no doubt about it, you want lots of people to see it.

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.

What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before.

Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.

We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company.