Actors Quote by Michael Brandt

I like to write for actors I know and with whom I've worked before. You can write to their strengths and weaknesses and write…

— Michael Haneke

TV writing is tricky to navigate because you have so many different personalities - the actors, multiple producers.

— Roger Avary

Once you start working with a particular actor, that actor becomes very present in your mind as your mind as you're writing subsequent episodes.

— Dan Futterman

It's great to write for actors when you know who they are. I think I prefer it.

— Jason Gann

I just personally feel like the best writing for actors exists in cable television.

— Donal Logue

When I'm writing novels, even screenplays, it's never an actor I have in mind; it's always the version in my head of who the…

— Jonathan Tropper

It's such a gift when you know who you're writing for and you know that that actor is capable of so much that you…

— Steven Knight

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

— Liev Schreiber

When I'm writing, I'm writing for a particular actor. When a lot of writers are writing, they're writing an idea. So they're not really…

— Todd Phillips

I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that…

— Danny Strong

I love to choose the right actors. It's kind of a pleasure to work with them and watch them imbue your concepts that you…

— Panos Cosmatos

As an actor, you very rarely have the experience of picking up a script and getting a few pages into it and realizing that…

— Holt McCallany