Crafts Quotes

929 Crafts quotes by 710 unique authors

I usually write very few stage directions. I think a lot of that is a waste of time. The art of screenwriting is in its… — Scott Frank
The commercial theatre may still be considered one of New York's primary tourist attractions, but . . . there is no longer an audience for… — Robert Brustein
I'm interested in the way that the language of labor has been suppressed in our culture, the way it has disappeared from our vocabulary and… — Naomi Wallace
. . . strange and fantastic things really happen. During a rainstorm in Australia, fish fall from the sky; several Southern states consider legislation that… — Karen Joy Fowler
I definitely write from a need to try, in my own two hours, to right a wrong. My little play is inconsequential in terms of… — Lisa Loomer
The first time I went over to [my director's] house, he said to me, This is a very strange play. I was pleased that he… — Suzan-Lori Parks
The health of a nation, a society, can be determined by the art it demands. We have insisted of television and our movies that they… — Edward Albee
. . . I felt I was finally in a position to affect not only the artistic content of the American theatre, but also its… — David Henry Hwang
Belonging to the Dramatists Guild Council where, with my fellow dramatists, I can directly affect (and protect) the professional lives of all American Playwrights has… — Peter Stone
I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means. — Suzan-Lori Parks
My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a playwright. It's quite… — Wallace Shawn
How you get work done is by exploiting yourself and your feelings, and sometimes people get in the way. — Carrie Mae Weems
We live in an age where quantity is seen as preferable to quality, and many people tend to work in a horizontal line: next, next,… — Simon McBurney
There's nothing personal in it [THE SKRIKER]. I'm not ever inclined with any of the plays to say, This is about that, because plays are… — Caryl Churchill
I haven't had a single moment of terror since they told me [I was dying]. My only regret is to die four pages too soon.… — Dennis Potter
I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary.… — Alberto Giacometti
In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. The purpose of it,… — Sam Shepard
. . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an [adaptation] of your book?… — Laurie Anderson
. . . the whole idea of WHAT HAPPENED WAS.... is not about dating. It is more about people who are not committed to who… — Tom Noonan
TRUST took as its starting point the question, What would happen if a movie took the character of a teen-age girl seriously?. — Hal Hartley
To many Congressmen and Senators right now, there's a ceaseless antagonism toward Hollywood because politically, it is high-reward and low-risk. So when you can't do… — Jack Valenti
For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own story. — Sonia Rykiel
[Hollywood] studios are handing out money to make independent films now, but they all want the same thing. They want the style and the deadpan… — Stanley Tucci
I firmly believe in and support everyone's right to freedom of artistic expression. STEEL MAGNOLIAS is my artistic expression, and it is my right to… — Robert Harling
I do not make films which are prescriptive, and I do not make films that are conclusive. You do not walk out of my films… — Mike Leigh

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