Action Quote by Hunter S. Thompson

The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and…

— Hunter S. Thompson

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

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the…

— John le Carre

My theory is that everything an actor does, from the way he looks at his watch to the way he moves across the stage,…

— Bernard Sahlins

A lot of screenwriters write certain characters, certain parts, with actors in mind. I don't really tend to do that. I describe them as…

— Travis Beacham

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

There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively normal lives.

— Evangeline Lilly

To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and have experiences…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act,…

— Paul Muni

Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating…

— Tamzin Merchant

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. Thats what…

— John Patrick Shanley

Writing is much more satisfying on a certain level than acting ever was. Because you're not interpreting someone else's original idea, you can come…

— Michael Beck