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.

You spend most of your LIFE working and trying to hone your craft, working on your chops, working on your writing, and you don't REALLY THINK about accolades. Then you get a bit older and they start COMING your way. It's a NICE pat on the back.

Your self-worth has NOTHING to do with your CRAFT or CALLING, and everything to do with how you TREAT yourself.

There was a lightbulb moment as SOON as I walked in the kitchen and started WORKING. I love the PHYSICAL action. I love the whole idea of feeding people and bringing people TOGETHER over food. I love the CRAFT involved.

I GO on at least 2-3 auditions a week in the PURSUIT of more work. So I'm constantly working on MATERIAL and constantly honing and trying to perfect a craft that is NEVER perfectible - it's always new, and it's always different. It's always a work in progress.

See, the thing that bothers me with young actors, young actors of COLOR specifically, is that they see movies and television, and they figure that's all it is to it. They have no respect for the CRAFT. They want to be, you know, movie stars or whatever. And I WORRY that we're LOSING a certain QUALITY, you know?

I entreat all artisans faithfully to FOLLOW their craft and TAKE DELIGHT in it. I entreat all servants to be FAITHFUL servants of their masters and mistresses.

A GREAT STORY poorly told doesn't do anybody any good at all, and nobody wants to HEAR it, and nobody wants to read it. The craft of it is really more important than the SUBJECT MATTER.

We need to know what the resources of the moon are. We have great EVIDENCE now because of DIFFERENT kinds of radar and spectroscopic analysis that PEOPLE have been able to do. But we really do need to GO VISIT there, and we can do that with a robot craft without any problem.

Women don't GET the same opportunities that men get in RACING, so they don't get to learn RACE craft.

I always try to craft SPACES around the MOMENTS that I IMAGINE people or families having in them.

My parents have TRULY gone above and beyond in not only supporting me but also encouraging me to follow my dreams. My dad's only WISH was that I made sure to go to college for THEATRE and study my CRAFT.

I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites, which MEANS these are generally films that I saw when I was a kid; anything you SEE in your formative years is more powerful, because it REALLY STAYS with you forever. The SECOND category is films that I saw while I was learning the craft of motion pictures.