I think I came to film-making through writing. I started…

“It's not interesting stuff that they're making up and writing, and that's why they're going down.”

— Sarah Palin

I became really aware that when you're making a movie, you're making it three times. You're making it when you're writing it. You're making…

— Mark Ruffalo

It's rare that I'm not at work on some sort of craft project. I've often enthused about the need to make things; how it…

— David Rakoff

I love to write, so I think writing would be the next natural step. And if I'm making something that I'm writing, it would…

— Cameron Monaghan

I was 12 or 13 years old. So I started to write poetry and fiction, even though I was really into biology because my…

— Darren Aronofsky

Unfortunately, when you're working in film, it's this huge machine, and you've got to get everyone right there, so you get kind of locked…

— Darren Aronofsky

For me, writing started as pleasure that became professionalized, so my relationship to it is a bit sullied. I'm working it out.

— Katrina Onstad

It was just me in my basement honing my skills, hearing songs on the radio and trying to manipulate them and then writing over…

— Clinton Sparks

I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition,…

— Joan Collins

Thanks to the comic book publishers. Batman and Captain Marvel were responsible for my learning to read at least a year before I showed…

— Jack McDevitt

I mean, I knew that one day I'd do something writing-oriented as soon as I started writing. But when I started singing, I was…

— Alison Sudol

I was playing a singer-songwriter, so I started writing, and I started going up to different places around Los Angeles and reading poetry of…

— Inbar Lavi

I never stopped writing. I started writing when I was twelve years of age. And I was writing all the time. But nothing was…

— Nawal El Saadawi

“Writing started out as a kind of therapy for me. I was bullied mercilessly in high school, and I lived vicariously through Kitty. She…

— Caitlin Elyse

I started writing when I started acting professionally because, with acting, there's so much time when you're not working, and there's so much rejection…

— Finn Wittrock