Crafts Quotes

929 Crafts quotes by 710 unique authors

I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to… — Wole Soyinka
[Nixon] reduced the meaning of his life to nothing but power. In the film, we gave this sad figure consciousness of what he was. We… — Oliver Stone
I thought if I was going to live a life in this land I was accidentally born on, I must people it; I must have… — Sebastian Barry
My writing isn't actually guided by issues. I know it seems that way, but I don't sit down and think, Oh, there's this issue I'm… — Paula Vogel
You have more and more people coming into the tent with the creative guys [on Hollywood films]. You have marketing and concept testers, advertising people.… — James L. Brooks
I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to see them both… — Naomi Wallace
What is absolutely true is that any good [Television] series has a specific voice. And I think that voice is almost exclusively the domain of… — Howard Gordon
[Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship. — Sam Shepard
Every film I have made has corresponded to a very special moment of my life. I like to think that if someone wanted to reconstruct… — Bernardo Bertolucci
[The director's idea for the film was:] A young American or English girl goes to Tuscany to visit English expatriates. She is on a mission… — Susan Minot
I had no agenda in writing this play except expressing myself. . . . It later occurred to me that I was not only announcing… — Mart Crowley
I was so mad at my agent. I had polished and polished and polished [the play], and he referred to it as a draft. I… — Cynthia Ozick
I was talking to one of the writers about our target audience, and he was insulted that I used that term. But if you're given… — Michael Bay
Heroes? Don't believe in them. — Samuel Fuller
I don't write [screenplay character] biographies beforehand. I usually go in knowing some sequences: this is where I want to start, this is where I… — John Sayles
I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history. — Tony Kushner
When I got to the end of this play, I realized I was trying to make Angel do something that had not been justified by… — Pearl Cleage
I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much. The scenes are tight, the… — A. R. Gurney
. . . don't rewrite unless you know what you're trying to do. — Craig Lucas
The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London, we had difficulty… — Arthur Miller
However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And it's… — Edward Zwick
We're one of the last handmade art forms. There's no fast way to make plays. It takes just as long and is just as hard… — Steven Dietz
I thought I would write something that would make some people uncomfortable. . . . What intrigued me, I think, was the idea of women… — Wendy Wasserstein
I want to seduce the audience. If they can go along for a ride they wouldn't ordinarily take, or don't even know they're taking, then… — Paula Vogel
. . . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think film… — Arthur Miller

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