Actresses Quote by Neil Jordan

Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life.

— Anita Loos

I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.

— Joan Didion

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

For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

— Victoria Abril

Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I…

— Patrick Marber

I've always written for actors, and if you want to write for good actors, you have to write parts that are surprising, that are…

— Peter Hedges

I personally never felt like I connected to a lot of characters, especially female characters, that were written the way they were written; these…

— Katy O'Brian

I'm sure that everything you do contributes to the sort of novel that you write. A lot of actors have an understanding of drama…

— Rachel Joyce

I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written.

— Pattiann Rogers

I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came…

— Margaret Mahy

Filmmaking was the way I could write characters and not have to give them up to anybody.

— Dee Rees

I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put…

— Mindy Kaling