Books Quote by Nicholas Meyer

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

— Mike White

I consider myself more of a writer than I do a director.

— Lena Waithe

Writer-directors are a little bit more liberal, rather than having just the writer on the set, because I think sometimes the writer becomes too…

— Dennis Farina

A lot of directors keep writers away because the writers know the script better than anybody, obviously they do, and they have certain intents.…

— Glenn Ficarra

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

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

— Tom Perrotta

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people…

— Taylor Hackford

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

Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film…

— Gus Van Sant

Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue…

— B. J. Novak

Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

— Ian Mcewan

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is…

— E. L. Doctorow