Books Quote by Dan Chaon

I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.

— Jack Nicholson

I wanted to write and then I saw Pierrot and I understand that I could express myself in a more... Also probably, I had…

— Chantal Akerman

I became much more interested in plot when I really didn't consider myself a writer anymore. When I was in an art context and…

— Vito Acconci

The idea of directing was something that I always had in the back of my mind, and writing as well. I began to write…

— Charles Martin Smith

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

— Tom Perrotta

I felt like I was a writer, and I just thought filmmaking was the best way for me to express that, because it allows…

— Lena Dunham

I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a…

— Dan Gilroy

I came into screenwriting from an odd direction, because the first screenplay that I read was and is better as writing than the top…

— William Monahan

I've always known that I've wanted to write, but I always saw myself doing that in the context of something other than film, so…

— Sarah Polley

A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly…

— Stef Penney

What I found so captivating about the idea of being a writer was having the ability to write down all these things I made…

— Kameron Hurley