Actors Quote by Helen Mirren

Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.

— Steven Bochco

A good writer takes time to go in-depth into a subject and then comes out with a good script. Then it's the job of…

— Johnny Lever

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

Actors are like writers. They kind of use what's available, absorb it and make it their own.

— Amanda Bearse

Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're going to…

— Campbell Scott

Many actors in films are willing to go to Broadway, and screenwriters are writing plays. It's almost commonplace.

— Marc Platt

As an actor you have to bring to the table your creative input. But when a director like Ridley Scott says I want you…

— Cuba Gooding, Jr

What's nice about writing and making films is that being able to see a film from the outside - from the inception through production…

— Peter Vack

Actors should be writers. While a writer puts the story on paper, an actor puts it on screen.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

I don't think actors are to blame for poor writing. The culture changes first, and the theater follows it. In the case of the…

— Christopher Reeve

Actors can write and produce too. Then when I was working on Jason Bourne­ - having had that experience - instead of going back…

— Julia Stiles

A lot of writers, because they don't understand actors, feel like, in order to be better at their performance, they have to change the…

— Giovanni Ribisi