Jason Gann Quotes

In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I wanted to become a novelist.

I read a lot of bad scripts and weird television shows. I don't know. There's a lot of work out there I was reading at 14 years old and noticing this lack of thought. And then, reading 'Afterschool,' that's full of thought. It was bursting with ideas.

I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.

I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall On Your Knees.'

I dreamed of being an actress when I was a little kid because you don't know then that the writer writes everything the actor is saying. But as I got older, I got into college and became more aware that writing is another option, and I started getting into it, too.

I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.

I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.

I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.

You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.

One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.

Writing for a soap - writing for 25 characters day in, day out - is one of the most difficult jobs in Hollywood.

I'm a long-time fan of Rob Long, and his books are hugely re-readable, detailing the ins and outs of being a Hollywood comedy writer with a past success but with everything to prove.

I've still got lots of writing in me. I have not left journalism, but I put it on hold to focus on acting. I love actors. I think it's a crazy thing to do with your life, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them.

Novels are the means by which we can escape the moment we are imprisoned in, but at the same time, the roots of a novel are in the world in which it is written. We write, and we read, to understand the world we live in.

I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer.

If someone said, 'Sit down and write a 'Community' episode,' I would be panicked.

Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.

I love sitting at my desk and facing a quiet day with a pen in my hand, and putting myself into a story. It's kind of weird, isn't it? I mean, to absent myself from real life and make up stories is strange, but I started doing this when I was ten years old. It was all I wanted to do.

My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world.

I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident.

I really like writing television, and I like the collaborative writers room feeling. It's ten people, and you're together every day laughing your heads off.

No matter what's happening in my life, I can always get lost in the romances of my characters.

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.