Ever since I was 7 years old, I was writing. I remember being in the basement of my house, this dank, horrible basement, putting on plays with not-very-willing participants, and I would promise kids in the neighborhood that I'd play… — John Francis Daley Copy Share Image
Once you see the entertainment world from both sides, you really get a greater understanding of how it all operates. As an actor going… — John Francis Daley Copy Share Image
A lot of the time, as an actor, you don't have the freedom to change what your lines are, and they can often be… — John Francis Daley Copy Share Image
It's like live action if you reshot every scene a million times after finishing the movie. Because even apparently by the very end, a… — John Francis Daley Copy Share Image
As an actor going into screenwriting, I was able to understand what type of dialogue feels natural. A lot of the time, as an… — John Francis Daley Copy Share Image
I'm avoiding having an assistant because then I would become the horrible boss. I can't justify having an assistant as a 25-year-old; I just… — John Francis Daley Copy Share Image
I had always been interested in screenwriting, ever since I could write things down as a child. Obviously, I started as an actor, professionally,… — John Francis Daley Copy Share Image
I've always been the type of person that has told friends, if they're going through a rough time, I'm always there to talk to. — John Francis Daley Copy Share Image
You become sort of insulated in this bubble when you're working on something that it's hard to have an outsider's perspective on what works… — John Francis Daley Copy Share Image
As a screenwriter and a half-Jew, I tend to look at the glass half-empty. — John Francis Daley Copy Share
Another thing that makes the process different is we go in there and are completely immersed in [that] world for however many weeks and then we would leave and they would be animating for however many weeks and we wouldn't have anything to do with it. Then we would come back and see all this work that they had done.… — John Francis Daley Copy Share
You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have… — John Francis Daley Copy Share Image
We always for better or worse try to put on paper what's going up on screen - whether we're directing it or not. It's… — John Francis Daley Copy Share Image
