If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill — Frank Langella Copy Share Image
Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft, — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile. — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
Grips and electricians have done more to help me shoot good movies than any other craft. — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
[Using humor to explore serious issues] disarms people. It's a way in. It's gentle, but at the same time it's subversive, and… — Lisa Loomer Copy Share Image
The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting. — James Lipton Copy Share Image
Film-makers in Belgium are seen as arts and crafts makers. It is a small country. There is not really a film industry… — Luc Dardenne Copy Share Image
Whether you're an unpublished novelist or a sixteen-time New York Times bestselling author, you can always improve your craft. You can always… — Robert Dugoni Copy Share Image
I am a story-teller working with a craft. My job is to use my craft - which is a different thing to… — Gavin Hood Copy Share Image
Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . .… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the Ridley Scott film 'The Martian' you can do that [virtually driving car]. I have lifted off in the space craft… — Martin Sorrell Copy Share Image
“The separation of talent and skill is one of the greatest misunderstood concepts for people who are trying to excel, who have… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
Literature is always best when it is celebrating its subjects darkly. ... And because it is often by describing the thing lost… — Bill Buford Copy Share Image
Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Yes, the first draft is the key. That's why I put so much energy, focus, and attention on the first draft, because… — Caridad Svich Copy Share Image
[Henry] James is much more complex than Jane Austen. That's why it's not so easy to adapt him. People expect a nice… — Agnieszka Holland Copy Share Image
There are parts of a ship which taken by themselves would sink. The engine would sink. The propeller would sink. But when… — Ralph Washington Sockman Copy Share Image
Many young web designers view their craft the way I used to view pop culture. It's cool or it's crap. They mistake… — Jeffrey Zeldman Copy Share Image
Neither camera, nor lens, nor film determine the quality of pictures; it is the visual perception of the man behind the mechanism… — Helmut Gernsheim Copy Share Image
Congratulations to all the members of the wonderful Treorchy Male Choir past and present. In moments of grief or joy, the sound… — David Jason Copy Share Image
Making photos is helpful of course to master the craft. To get comfortable with the camera. Learn what a camera can do… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
If you want to be a fiction writer, you need to start reading like a fiction writer. To do so, you need… — John McNally Copy Share Image
Even in the things that look most frivolous there has to be the threat of something quite painful to make the comedy… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
![“[Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship.” quote by Sam Shepard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8d/sam-shepard-2232_art_rewriting-is-a-whole-other-art-form-it-s_2644986.jpg)
![“[Using humor to explore serious issues] disarms people. It's a way in. It's gentle, but at the same time it's subversive, and I like that duality.” quote by Lisa Loomer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a24/lisa-loomer-67597_comedy_using-humor-to-explore-serious-issues-di_3006705.jpg)
![“Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.” quote by Arthur Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c4/arthur-miller-947_crafts_today-theatre-s-more-likely-to-be-consci_2321437.png)
![“In the Ridley Scott film 'The Martian' you can do that [virtually driving car]. I have lifted off in the space craft from the surface of Mars, walked in space and looked down into deep space and got terrified, with the headphones and the goggles.” quote by Martin Sorrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a1/martin-sorrell-10724_can-do_in-the-ridley-scott-film-the-martian-you_1568686.jpg)
![“[Henry] James is much more complex than Jane Austen. That's why it's not so easy to adapt him. People expect a nice period piece, but that's not always the case. There's a deep human mystery in his work.” quote by Agnieszka Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ae/agnieszka-holland-70054_austen_henry-james-is-much-more-complex-than-ja_2734818.jpg)
