Craft Knowledge Quotes

If you write enough musicals you pretty much have a sense of where they should go, what you'll need, and when; how to pull people on that journey.

I'm baffled when young actors aren't familiar with current film, television and theater, or aren't interested in older films or plays and the history of the craft in general. If you don't know what's out there, and what came before, then how can you picture yourself working, and how can anyone else?

Most of the great practitioners of the art of acting know exactly what they're doing; even in the best, most successful moments, when they let go of the awareness of what they are doing, they still, somewhere deep inside their body, know what they're doing. There is a craft.

My first Hindi film as a leading man was Mahesh Bhatt's 'Saaransh,' which immediately established me as someone who knows the craft.

There's nothing better than an educated actor - not only educated in his craft but educated in the world.

Bad improv happens with people who are inexperienced with each other and don't know the craft that well. But bad stand-up is something that could happen to someone at any level in their career.

My generation, we came along, we had to really know our craft.

We're learning the business, meeting people we need to know, getting knowledgeable about our craft.

No matter what the circumstances are in our business - travel, politics, injury - you got to be in the game. And to be in the game, you got to work hard, and you have to know your craft.

You have to know your craft. I find that most people who are very, very successful know their craft and have done the research.

The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.