Butler Quote by Spike Jonze

David Mamet's writing is pretty spectacular, obviously. I like the honesty of it; I like how funny it is and how sad it is.

— T. R. Knight

I loved the tone and the characters. They're all very different and they're all very typical for their time. When you read the screenplay…

— Lone Scherfig

I'm very confident that Nick Hornby always gets it right as a writer. He has the vernacular and passion. He is adroit and dry,…

— Pierce Brosnan

I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just you and…

— Patrick Marber

I love the novelist's freedom of going into different people's subjectivity and being able to work with them as characters.

— Elif Batuman

I highly respect and really admire Sam Levinson the creator, I think he's so talented. He creates such beautiful, deep, authentic, gut-wrenchingly honest narratives.

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

Noah Baumbach writing is really wonderful. I think the way he plays out each character with a unique voice is really impressive, and rhythmically…

— Naomi Watts

I feel it's very important to let individual writers' voices come through. But the character has to be consistent.

— Paul Lieberstein

I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the…

— Kyra Sedgwick

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.

— Tommy Lee Jones

I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant…

— Don DeLillo

I just have to be able to follow and enjoy the writer's voice and the writer's point of view. Liking what the person has…

— Wesley Morris