Quotes About Author

It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.

Animals have always been therapeutic for me to work with; they help me get me grounded from being on the road.

I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama.

I'm not much interested in prizes, whether from the Arab world or from the Western world. Writing is a very difficult process and I want to continue my work.

I like to work. I enjoy once a year, doing a film.

I like to do a lot of research on all of the films I work on. So, I like to read a lot. That's always an interesting part of it with me.

It causes me great pain to sue the company I work for. Nevertheless, I had to do it. Suffice it to say, there's a dispute and I believe I haven't been given what is mine.

Licensing can be great. You get money for work that's already done. It's not a horrible thing to me, there's just some things I don't want to soundtrack.

If you think of play as being in things, there are things that are playable, then it becomes the work of figuring out what a thing can do.

I'm a good counter comedian. I can just work it off with looks, or have something crazy to say back. That works for me.

A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.

My work holds up the mirror to hypocrisy, which puts me in a tradition of American writing that reaches back to Nathaniel Hawthorne.

On most TV shows, you work on a set and do some location.

I support myself by public speaking and trying to work on as many appropriate and legitimate ventures as I can.

Inevitably in any work you do I think that there is a sense of continuity, and I like that.

I still work really hard, but I like to think I'm a little smarter about at least the type of movie I'm getting into.

I'm writing books. They're still a mix of fact and fiction and will continue to be. I think it's an interesting place to work.

Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum and not that well written.

If you're a writer, you have to be an egomaniac. You have to just believe in yourself, which is hard work.

It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing

I don't like talking about sequels or spinoffs or franchise until they actually happen, until they actually work with the audience.

My dream would be to be on a show that shoots in New York, because I live here, and then I could walk to work.

I love big ensemble shows where there are a lot of things going on and you have to really pay attention because there's a lot of nuanced work and universal themes are being explored.

Horror is great storytelling with scary elements on top of it, but if you don't have great storytelling, you can have all the scares in the world, but the movie won't work.