Quotes About Writer

I learned so much from my life as an actor, as a kid actor through being an adult actor, and then becoming a writer and producer and doing animation.

Working as a producer, an arranger, and, in some cases, as a writer for some other people gave me a super different perspective.

The writer and the director are ultimately responsible for what is portrayed and glorified in a film. Then comes the producer.

I've been in various roles in TV - writer, producer, associate director.

And 'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll' was a very transitional film for me in that I was one of the producers and you know, came up with the idea with the writer and the producer, as well. But, it was a very collaborative event. You know, I really love working in that way.

To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them.

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 form with great potential, but the environment around it is awful for a writer.

A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.

You don't have to make something in order to retain your identity as an artist or a writer or a creative person. A lot of people think they have to be producing in order to maintain that identity.

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

When a director is also a writer, everyone on the production looks to him, knowing he gave birth to the idea. There's a different level of viability.

Seattle's not a particularly Jewish city, and I'm not in any way religious. Since I've been here, I've been a fairly productive, even obsessively productive, writer.

There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.

Knowing about authors' beliefs helps you understand how those beliefs influence their writing, and things you thought meant one thing, once you've got enough information about that writer, you suddenly realize mean an entirely different thing. That makes a difference.

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.

As a writer, I don't have a sense of my own position. I try to disappear and not to think of myself at all when I'm working.

In Colombia is where I discovered myself as a writer.

I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.

A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.

It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.

I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.

Without question, I've either got to be a writer, or I fail.

I think we can fairly conclude that writer-director Joss Whedon didn't make 'The Avengers' for me.