The thing I respond to the most is just great writing…

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.

— Alan Rickman

I love great writing. I like interesting characters. I like to work with people who push me to be better, to elevate my game.

— Julie Ann Emery

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

— Mia Farrow

Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science.

— Janna Levin

Perhaps if there is anything remotely interesting about my writing style, it is this: more often than not I have no idea what the…

— Vandana Singh

The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way…

— Sam Shepard

Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill…

— Edna Ferber

I learned that I enjoy directing a lot more than I enjoy writing, which is interesting, because writing is lonely and infamous basically.

— Dan Mazer

Eventually writing became more interesting to me than acting.

— Sylvester Stallone

As an actor, I never really had a strategy. I just take projects, as they come. It all comes down to the writing, at…

— Chris Vance

When I decided to stop using quotation marks, it presented technical challenges: you have to conceive of dialogue differently and structure it differently for…

— Catherine Brady

Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement…

— Thurston Moore

I've always been interesting in characters that challenge people and who are not always that easy to like.

— Julian McMahon

People who act against their own best interests are interesting characters.

— Paul Schrader

There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really…

— Zooey Deschanel