Affects Quote by Dallas Roberts

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

In TV, writers generally are the show runners, and they have enormous control over everything. In feature films, very often the writer will turn…

— Terence Winter

I always thought the writing process for movies and TV shows was just a blueprint. The making of it was the thing.

— Sam Esmail

So often, I think shows get into these grooves where they know the characters hit, and they just write for it over and over…

— Dan Levy

Writing is a black-box proposition. You see actors; you can see what they're doing. You can watch the director on set doing his work.…

— Shane Black

As I've probably said before, television exposes writers to far more of the nitty-gritty than film does.

— Travis Beacham

I've been on shows where they're just setting it up, and they're trying to find the tone of the writing and performance. That's always…

— Miranda Otto

What you have to get used to as a writer is realizing that most of what you come up with is wrong for the…

— Michael Loceff

With television, sometimes the writing is continuous and happening at every moment, and you'll get new pages at the last moment. We have to…

— Michael Stuhlbarg

On every show, there's some amount of work that is brought to some state of completion - or even finished - and then cut…

— John Knoll

As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very established tone…

— Alan Ball

I think television keeps on being a place where writers can go, and if they're successful, they can have their way, and they can…

— James L. Brooks