Mean Quote by Mark Strong

The difference between one writer and the other, or one director and the other, is the way he deals with a scene.

— Sreenivasan

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct…

— Vikram Rohit Shetty

I always think that the writer is doing the vast majority of the director's work, in a sense. If you're a writer who is…

— Harold Ramis

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

A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.

— Jon Hurwitz

Directing is extrovert and gregarious; writing is isolating, introverted, and lonely.

— David Farr

The truth is, writing and directing are two very different jobs. They're not even remotely the same job. It took me a while, as…

— Drew Goddard

It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and…

— Cuba Gooding, Jr

(As) a director who is a writer, I have respect for writers, so I'm less likely to step on an idea or a line.

— Ben Affleck

Every director has a sensibility and style, and what works is his originality and conviction.

— Farhan Akhtar

I think part of being a good screenwriter is being as concise as possible.

— Eric Roth

To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.

— Peter Sarsgaard