Craft Quotes

“I'm a knitter. I'm a weaver. I'm a spinner. I'm a quilter. I'm a dyer. So I do all that.”

“My job is to bring the text to life. The text is the score, the text is the blueprint.”

“I think there's a big misconception with the new generation of actors that you can just go out there and wing it.”

“What I look for in a role is the physical. I'm not a talking head.”

“To be a character who is larger than life is to be an actor.”

“It's not about being a star, it's about being a good actor.”

“I'm not a good writer. I'm a good rewriter.”

“The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.”

“A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret of the business is to withdraw the bad and preserve the good.”

“I don't know what it is to be a star. I know what it is to be an actor.”

“To write is to rewrite. To rewrite is to write.”

“Writing a good movie is not as easy as it looks. It's a hell of a lot harder.”

“When you're doing a character, you want to be that character. You want to be that person.”

“What's important is to be able to get inside the character's head.”

“For an actress, the most important thing is to have a good character to play.”

“The most difficult thing in the world is to get a pure, definite, and final idea of what is meant by 'good acting'.”

“I just want to tell good stories. It's all about the story.”

“To be a writer is to be a reader.”

“The whole business of being an actor is to be somebody else, and I find that a wonderful, mesmerising thing.”

“I think of myself as an actor. The work is the work. I don't think of the work as different because it's a blockbuster or an independent film.”