Craft Quotes

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“When you're a character actor, you're not defined by your looks.”

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

“I'm not a method actor. I don't believe in it. I believe in pretending.”

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

“To be a writer is to be a reader.”