The truth is, a director wins an Oscar for a writer's script and actors' performances.
George Cukor
It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling.
Macaulay Culkin
As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.
Carlton Cuse
I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.
I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a... →
Rachel Cusk
What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different... →
Roald Dahl
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
Being known as a writer did change the relationships I had with directors. The rap on actors is that they always want to inflate their parts. But... →
Matt Damon