Beats Quote by Tom Perrotta

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

— Mike White

In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.

— Terry Southern

Writing a novel is a lot like directing a movie because you are creating a world and a tone, you are creating a large…

— Stephen Chbosky

When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.

— John Irving

I learned that you really don't have any control as a writer. Waah, waah, waah. Big deal. Unless you're the director on the movie,…

— Bret Easton Ellis

As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control.

— Gillian Flynn

Writing is close to acting. In directing, you control. Acting, you can't control how good you are, and you can't control how good you…

— Elaine May

I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.

— Steve Carell

Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a…

— Elmore Leonard

Writing a novel, when it's all going well, it's wonderful. You're lost in the world, and you have a relationship with your own mind.…

— Sarah Dunn

For me, directing is like writing with meat. I can write live, in real time, and change things and be confident that I'm helping…

— David Ayer

There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got too much…

— Alex Garland