Idiotic Quote by William H. Macy

On every film, there are producers all over the place, and everyone's got to have an opinion. I think the screenplay is a beautiful…

— Sam Shepard

All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it.

— William Saroyan

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

A lot of directors keep writers away because the writers know the script better than anybody, obviously they do, and they have certain intents.…

— Glenn Ficarra

It amazes me there are movies about writers... such inert, uneventful lives.

— John Cooper Clarke

You have to understand that people feel threatened by a writer. It's very curious. He knows something they don't know. He knows how to…

— Ernest Lehman

I think writers are excited by stupidity and bad behavior, generally.

— Martin Amis

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.

— Sinclair Lewis

I know how to write. So I am not totally at the mercy of filmmakers, but it's not a bad point.

— Sarah Silverman

The screenplay is so well-written in a scruffy, fanzine way that you want to rub noses in it - the noses of those zombie…

— Roger Ebert

In TV, it's so much more about the writers because they're the ones creating the universe. The writers are the ones who know what's…

— Juno Temple

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material…

— Terry Brooks