Actors Quote by William Devane

Some TV shows are like really good novels in that there are enough episodes that you start to have your own feelings about how…

— Nicholson Baker

There's sort of a very symbiotic thing that happens on good TV shows with great writers, which is that they start to sort of…

— Lucas Neff

TV writing is tricky to navigate because you have so many different personalities - the actors, multiple producers.

— Roger Avary

Every day on the set, things change. You move things around. The actors are creating the roles and bringing them to life, and bringing…

— Summer Glau

What you have to get used to as a writer is realizing that most of what you come up with is wrong for the…

— Michael Loceff

Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they…

— Larry Cohen

I feel terrible for directors of TV because all the episodes have to look the same. They make a great series for five or…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite…

— Harvey Fierstein

As a writer, you're really in control of almost everything. That's not the case in TV. You have to be prepared to work with…

— Josh Elliott

A lot of writers, because they don't understand actors, feel like, in order to be better at their performance, they have to change the…

— Giovanni Ribisi

When you're doing 22 shows on network television, the writers are going on vapors towards the end and, as an actor, you're just trashed…

— Jimmy Smits

The best shows I've done, the writers, actors, and directors have been pretty much left alone - maybe given a little guidance to make…

— Peter Krause