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.

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.

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.

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.

So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company.

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.

For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits industry.

Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

It taught me something. It taught you your craft.

When the major studios flourished many years ago, an actor was groomed, developed, and worked frequently at his craft. The studios really took care of their actors.

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.

I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through.