Answers Quote by Bruce Campbell

I prefer a much looser style. Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or…

— Bruce Campbell

In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people…

— Christopher Guest

Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.

— James Wolcott

It's quite different writing for films and for myself. You have to help guide a scene along emotionally, and the wrong approach can just…

— Michael Penn

Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of.

— Matthew Specktor

You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always a bad…

— Eleanor Catton

Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient.

— Christopher Bollen

As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write; they do…

— Harper Lee

“Dear lady, ... dear gentleman, reader, [it's] not right ... to put down this writer on his writing ... And I'll tell you why,…

— William Saroyan

As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it's…

— Charlize Theron

It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death.

— Antony Sher