Cinema Quote by Steven Bochco

And dialogue, I'm good at it, and it's because it's the only thing you have to work with in TV writing.

— Maria Semple

Once a film gets into production, the actors sometimes begin to have more input than a writer does.

— Helen Mirren

You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.

— Peter Morgan

Sometimes, what's not said is just as important to the writing as what is said. As a writer, we have our voices heard. I…

— Joel Edgerton

As I've probably said before, television exposes writers to far more of the nitty-gritty than film does.

— Travis Beacham

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

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

— Eric Roth

With film, you read the whole script three or four times, and you really have a solid blueprint of who your character is. Whereas…

— Graham Phillips

I don't think the written word is important in movies anymore and the really great movies are done by great directors who in many…

— Anita Loos

There's a way in which filmmaking is a director's medium and television is a writer's medium, so even as TV gets more cinematic, it's…

— Alan Taylor

One's ability to communicate a story visually, honestly, is a bridge of communication that transcends language because the true mark of a good film…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

In TV, writers generally are the show runners, and they have enormous control over everything. In feature films, very often the writer will turn…

— Terence Winter