I can Quote by Travis Beacham

Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.

— Elmore Leonard

I don't really write with actors in mind; I write with characters and then hope desperately that we can get good actors to play…

— Jack Thorne

When I'm writing, I'm writing for a particular actor. When a lot of writers are writing, they're writing an idea. So they're not really…

— Todd Phillips

When I'm writing novels, even screenplays, it's never an actor I have in mind; it's always the version in my head of who the…

— Jonathan Tropper

It feels as though a very disproportionate number of main characters are writers, because that's what the writer knows. Fair enough. But nothing bothers…

— B. J. Novak

I've always written for actors, and if you want to write for good actors, you have to write parts that are surprising, that are…

— Peter Hedges

The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and…

— Hunter S. Thompson

My theory is that everything an actor does, from the way he looks at his watch to the way he moves across the stage,…

— Bernard Sahlins

I write mostly as a director. That's why my screenplays are very detailed. So I get into the images I see. I like that.

— Deepa Mehta

Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film…

— Abbas Kiarostami

When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.

— John Sayles

You don't write for actors. Actors come for characters you've made up.

— William Monahan