Cinema Quote by M. Night Shyamalan

TV's job is to make you lean in, and a film's job is to make you lean back.

— Greg Berlanti

I think you need to understand games to write them. There's a learning curve, just like there's a learning curve in anything. It's not…

— Bruce Feirstein

There's a nimble quality to the way a television actor can work. When that muscle gets strong it's a very valuable thing.

— David Oyelowo

Once a film gets into production, the actors sometimes begin to have more input than a writer does.

— Helen Mirren

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

— Steven Bochco

Being an actor, we're so dependent on the writers.

— Amy Ryan

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

— Suhasini Maniratnam

The writers are the backbone in television, like in film, but eventually, as an actress, I can bring something.

— Priyanka Chopra

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

I did a lot of theater, so especially as an on-camera camera actor, there are so many things that aren't in your toolbox. They're…

— Kerry Bishe

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.

— Agnes Varda

You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.

— Peter Morgan