#craft

When the major studios flourished many years ago, an actor was groomed, developed, and worked frequently at his craft. The studios really took care of their actors. ↗

— James MacArthur

#ago #care #craft #developed #flourished

We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#bugged #burglars #caught #clues #concrete

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#astounding #books #craft #craftsmanship #faulkner

I'm still learning my craft. ↗

— Yann Martel

#i #learning #still

Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance. ↗

— Paul Martin

#canada #cities #distance #down #endless

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. ↗

— Steve Martin

#bit #compulsive #craft #want #whatever

When you make work, your goal might not be first and foremost to have as many people as possible see it, but it might be more about honing your craft as a storyteller or making art, but, there's no doubt about it, you want lots of people to see it. ↗

— Jim McKay

#art #craft #doubt #first #foremost

I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts. ↗

— George Miller

#arts #because #crafts #fired #got

Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums. ↗

— Joe Morton

#approach #basically #camera #craft #different

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#curb #denial #handicraft #limit #machine