I do whatever the directors and writers ask me to do.

The really important people in TV are not the directors; they're the writers.

— Mary Harron

Definitely, I feel that there is a need for more female producers, directors, and writers.

— Farhan Akhtar

The idea that all violence in movies is okay simply because it happens is bull. Directors and writers have a responsibility.

— Julie Taymor

Whenever young writers ask me for advice, I always say you have to be able to take a lot of rejection because, unless you're…

— Mary Gaitskill

I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what…

— Philip Roth

The requests for blurbs seem to come in waves. I'm not sure what precipitates them. I think it must be excruciating for editors to…

— Miriam Toews

Take three different Thai writers and ask them to extrapolate their county's future, and one hopes that you'll get three very different - but…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time…

— Stephen King

I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don't think that's the right way of making a decision…

— Steven Spielberg

What's interesting is that producers, directors and writers tend to typecast me in terms of whatever movie they've seen me in most recently.

— Gabrielle Union

Directors, writers, and actors are interested in making movies with me. Producers and movie studio people are not interested in me as they are…

— Michael O'Keefe

I always like to hang out with whoever's directing and watch what they do. I hang out at Video Village, the area where the…

— Miriam Shor

I'll put it this way: with the kind of films that I do - creatively driven, with interesting directors and writers - I don't…

— Jack Reynor

I am very happy to be working with so many talented directors and writers, who are penning scripts that are interesting for me.

— Alia Bhatt