Dan Castellaneta Quotes

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

In my free time, I'd written 'Sammy's Hill' - it had started out as a play. I just did it for myself.

Why should I write a play? I don't have to write a play, do I? But somehow, I think that's what I'm here for, so I'd better do it.

It's easier to cast yourself in something you've written because you know your voice.

Something I've really been wanting to do, ever since 'Six Feet Under' ended, was create my own version of this idealized writer's room as well as the ideal family.

I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

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 love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That's all I have ever wanted to do.

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

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.

One thing I like about trying to write is that I can possibly write myself a role. Otherwise, you're at the mercy of whatever roles are out there that people are willing to give to you.

I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.

When I was about 12, I spent the summer writing four plays on my dad's old typewriter for a school play competition. And I wrote little comic bits at secondary school and at university.

The person whose work introduced me to the craft was Lorraine Hansberry. The person who taught me to love the craft was Tennessee Williams. The person who really taught me the power of the craft was August Wilson, and the person who taught me the political heft of the craft was Arthur Miller.

If I have a long period of time away from acting, I tend to write.

My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.

If you can write and create original characters, do your own show, develop your own material, it gives you more power than just waiting around to be hired.

I wrote my first play when I was nine. It was performed at Hampstead Theatre.

I think visually... so, even when I'm writing a play, I'm envisioning it.

I've been doing some acting, writing classes, and taking a holistic approach so I can actually be good at this craft. But ideally I'd eventually want to get my own show and make my 'Atlanta' or my 'Master of None' - whatever that would look like - in whatever media landscape that would best suit it.

I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.