I never write with particular actors in mind.

I don't write for any particular kind of person.

— Mary Wesley

I don't write for a particular audience. I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and…

— August Wilson

In the writing phase, normally I try not to envisage any particular actors because I like to let the characters sort of reveal themselves…

— David Ayer

I never have particular actors planned when I'm in the process of writing.

— Susanne Bier

This is something particular to actors, especially in plays, and in films, too - but in plays, it's like, don't get involved with anyone…

— Tom Courtenay

I might've set out to write a particular song about a particular girl, but my experience will run out after four lines, so instead…

— Max Tundra

I think no one but me has the right to write about my life as I want to write it in a particular way.…

— Preity Zinta

I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a…

— Tracy Chapman

I don't write for a particular audience.

— August Wilson

Sometimes I write with a particular person in mind. I think it's fair to say that I write for a perceptive reader. You have…

— James Salter

The characters I didn't have actors in mind for, that was the scary moment. Because in any production, until you find the right person,…

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Actors will, in their mind, want to 'steal the scene,' and the problem is that means the scene didn't work in the first place.

— Erica Durance

A lot of screenwriters write certain characters, certain parts, with actors in mind. I don't really tend to do that. I describe them as…

— Travis Beacham

I don't really write with living actors in mind. I guess I write for dead actors. I'll think of like, you know, Burt Lancaster…

— Brian Helgeland

Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Penn to me are the two best actors of all time. I'm just glad to have the pleasure to be…

— Channing Tatum