Mac Davis Quotes

My day job is making TV shows.

I love movies, I love television and I know that the kind of stuff I love to watch and that's what I want to do.

Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally got a book published. It was hard. I had no skills. I knew nothing about the business of getting published. So I had to keep working at it.

We see them when they come to New York. They stay at my wife's apartment. We have quite a correspondence with them at all times. They play a very important role, the authors in the firm, because so much of the material we publish is suggested by them.

High-concept one-liners were huge when I got my start in the film industry.

My mother obviously was in the publishing business.

When television gets in trouble is when it forgets that it all begins with the written word.

Writing is the life blood of everything in Hollywood. Without writers, there are no scripts, no acting work.

If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in.

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

I started out as a novelist and wrote several novels before deciding to publish one, and I fully intend to go back to the form.

I wrote my first novel-length story when I was 14 but had no idea what to do with it. Brisbane was a long way from the publishing industry then. Nowhere's a long way from the publishing industry now.

I think I might want to get into development, as in developing my own sort of piece, whether it be for the stage or the big screen or for television.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

Anyone who has an imagination can write a book - it's cheap to do - but movies are big money.

Yeah... I like films, I like movies, I like playing different characters and working with different actors and filming in different places. I like movies because it's kind of a combination of every art: it's like, it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.

I would like to shift more into writing for and producing people.

I've never written a movie, I'm not in the movie business. I go out to L.A. and I'm like everyone else wandering around in a daze hoping I see movie stars. I write the novels that the movies are based on, and that feels like enough of a job for me.

My father was a journalist.

I definitely want make an impact in television. I want to make a continued and greater impact in feature films, and I want to be somebody who continues to be at the forefront of creating a wide variety of content that I could be proud of and that engages people on all levels.

I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time.

It's very difficult to find good scripts in Hollywood any more.

I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a collection.

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

I enjoy writing. Publishing... not so much. I've been lucky to work with some very talented people in the publishing world, and the print industry has allowed me to write full time.