. . . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
If you've got craft, you got game. If you got game, you can write your way in and out of anything. Writing… — Robert Mark Kamen Copy Share Image
I bring my dogs on set with me, and my little dog Karoo is smart as a whip. She knows where the… — Hilary Swank Copy Share Image
It is possible that the malice of writers has been overrated (by myself among others). Reading their ruminations on their craft, one… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
We live in an age where quantity is seen as preferable to quality, and many people tend to work in a horizontal… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I usually write very few stage directions. I think a lot of that is a waste of time. The art of screenwriting… — Scott Frank Copy Share Image
I write a lot from instinct. But as you're writing out of instinct, once you reach a certain level as a songwriter,… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was not interested in doing the plot of OEDIPUS in blackface. I did wonder, what would these people have been like… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Writing about real stuff that really concerned me brought out my craft. If you're writing a story about, 'Is Lois Lane gonna… — Dennis O'Neil Copy Share Image
I can't draw. But I can draw with sound. That's the most useful thing I learned in terms of what my craft… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
In Europe, I'm recognized on the street sometimes. And that's cool, because I don't have to live there and deal with it… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
Why should the railroad employees be parceled out among a score of different organizations? They are all employed in the same service.… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
It's a movie, OK? I went to see GONE WITH THE WIND, but did I really believe there was a guy named… — Don Hewitt Copy Share Image
GOOD AS NEW was born out of the idea of writing a play where the stakes were high and the collisions were… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
I feel like God has moved me into a different way of doing things. I teach basic on-camera acting class called Acting… — Patricia Mauceri Copy Share Image
The only craft and technique you have legitimate access to is the craft and technique you forgot, that has dissolved itself into… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
It's easy for me to be vulnerable and craft songs when I'm being a hermit in my woods loft, secluded. When I… — Rachael Yamagata Copy Share Image
If you've been told all your life that you're good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try… — Brittany Daniel Copy Share Image
The habits of craft, developed day in and day out over a working lifetime, create moments of astonishment, sublime and magical effects,… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
I've taught both screenwriting and playwriting, and playwriting is both much harder and much more rewarding. One can teach people how to… — David Ives Copy Share Image
Just movies in general. It's such a wonderful business as much as you feel, you are fine tuning your craft, every movie… — Len Wiseman Copy Share Image
[Saniyya Sidney] was very serious about her work and her craft, and she wanted to be good, and she wanted to work… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
The growth that an artist seeks is a fine combination of mastering craft, garnering an audience, maintaining one's mental health, and working… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
To arrive at a place called Mastery, you must commit to daily and rigorous practice. Enjoy practising your craft for its own… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm taking myself too… — Giovanni Ribisi Copy Share Image
One [of the two ideas for PROOF] was to write about two sisters who are quarreling over the legacy of something left… — David Auburn Copy Share Image
I find that I have improved in my craft and I have improved considerably in my ability to critique other people's artwork.… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
Many times, what people call 'writer's block' is the confusion that happens when a writer has a great idea, but their writing… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre.… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
I don't care what the situation was, how high the stakes were - the bases could be loaded and the pennant riding… — Mickey Mantle Copy Share Image
The more horses you yoke the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundation, which is… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
There is a rule in sailing where the more maneuverable ship should give way to the less maneuverable craft. I think this… — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
Be critical of but not brutal with your writing. If something isn't essential, get rid of it. Remember that good dialogue can… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
. . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940's that was supposed to… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I started in the P.A. world and craft service and storyboard artist, with the eye on the prize of directing. When I… — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image
Most of the great practitioners of the art of acting know exactly what they're doing; even in the best, most successful moments,… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
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