Doing Quote by Emma D'Arcy

Most of the time, with voice-overs, you're recording before they've got the graphics, and you also don't get a whole script. I get my…

— Tricia Helfer

It’s more than just saying lines and turning the light on. You have to drive the story—there’s a technical aspect.

— Angela Bassett

There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

Sometimes you can feel the gears shifting in scripts, like really trying to make something work that feels sweaty for whatever reason. I really…

— Nahnatchka Khan

It's really fun doing scenes with people when there's no written dialogue because you're really listening to each other, you're playing off each other,…

— Sebastian Silva

Like most writers, I sit in a room and scribble a story and you don't have a connection with the people who take your…

— Michael Morpurgo

When you're writing for the screen you're really thinking all the time of what you have to do to make sure that they have…

— Salman Rushdie

What you're normally doing as a writer is trying to find the narrative.

— Joan Didion

My performance, I believe, is about my duty to the script, and my duty to the story that we're trying to tell, and I…

— Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

I don't think there's anything that I would really baulk at doing on-screen. I don't think so. I've got certain pet peeves about writing...…

— Daniel Radcliffe

Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability to perform expertly, consistently, precisely, over and over again,…

— Randy West

And dialogue, I'm good at it, and it's because it's the only thing you have to work with in TV writing.

— Maria Semple