Book Quote by Dirk Benedict

With a stage play, they can't cut a word; you can be in rehearsals every day, you cast it, you cast the director, too;…

— Martin McDonagh

I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to…

— Lee Hall

Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has material to…

— Brian Greene

To perform on stage, you have to run through your paces till you are perfect. Despite the script and director, the actor makes or…

— Zeenat Aman

There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the…

— David Schwimmer

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create…

— John Guare

The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay…

— Barry Eisler

Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken. That's why…

— Sam Shepard

The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the…

— Kyle MacLachlan

It's very different working on stage to film; the immediacy is there on stage.

— Raza Jaffrey

I don't think I write differently when I'm writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were…

— Aaron Sorkin

I've never written an original piece for film; all the original things I've done are for the stage.

— Tom Stoppard