Change Quote by Steven Knight

A commission and an original are two different things, and both have their virtues and vices. A commission is a bit more collaborative, in…

— Steven Knight

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

— Louise Brown

It's always different, depending on the writer and the director. A collaborator like Graham Reznick delivers a fully finished piece, perfected in every way.…

— Larry Fessenden

Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photography. Editing is unique to film. You can see something…

— Stanley Kubrick

From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power…

— Joe Eszterhas

Directing is a unique endeavor where you are in charge of so many people. As a writer, it is sort of the opposite.

— Drew Goddard

“Agents don’t sell books, good writing does. Plotting and characterization are what interest an editor. Agents negotiate contracts, but they don’t sell books.”

— Debbie Macomber

It's not that much of a difference. Basically, your job is the same as a film director. It's a triangle between creativity, money, and…

— Darren Aronofsky

It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort of executor…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

As a director you already have a script, you have actors... you have collaborators when you're a director. When you're writing there's no one…

— Ben Younger

Whatever you do, whatever you come up with, whatever you decide on, you can go with it, and if the director or the execs,…

— IronE Singleton

The directing process is often a continuation of the writing. This is just a different skill-set.

— Atom Egoyan