Actor Quote by Amanda Peet

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

— Zoe Kazan

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love…

— Zoe Kazan

I suppose directing on set is the most fun because it's a good crack and you feel you're on the battlefield whereas writing is…

— Guy Ritchie

For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.

— Anson Mount

My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.

— Alan Alda

I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in my life when I could have been inventing people…

— George Bernard Shaw

I'm not a theoretician about playwriting, but I have a strong sense that plays have to be pitched - the scene, the line, the…

— Tom Stoppard

I've taught both screenwriting and playwriting, and playwriting is both much harder and much more rewarding. One can teach people how to tell a…

— David Ives

I love the freedom of writing and then I love the realization of directing. I can't favor one or the other. I enjoy both…

— Dee Rees

The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative freedom. You're…

— Amber Benson

For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what they’ll do…

— Justin Zackham

That's what I like about musical theater, is that it's very collaborative, not just with the writers, but with the director and the designers…

— Stephen Schwartz