Sara Ramirez Quotes

In TV, it's so much more about the writers because they're the ones creating the universe. The writers are the ones who know what's up.

TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer.

If I write a cop show, it's not up to me to decide how different it is from 'Law & Order.' I had screenwriters go on and on and on about how their cop show isn't like any other cop show on TV. They made very good points, and it absolutely doesn't matter. It's entirely up to the audience to decide.

There are a lot of good writers in TV!

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. That's what writing a screenplay is.

In the TV world, we are seeing a lot more power going to the writer. I sense it is a writer's medium.

In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.

As I've probably said before, television exposes writers to far more of the nitty-gritty than film does.

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

In my films writers are more important than actors.

American television is very much created by the writers, just the volume of it. The writers are so key. You're just trying to do something that serves that script. And in general, film isn't all about the script, really.

Obviously, television is a writer's medium, so you get a lot more power and authority. With a film, the discipline is having a beginning, middle and end, and having it work in a specific space of time.

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

When I do a movie, I have the script. I know how it begins and how it ends. I know what my character does and where he's going. If I have ideas I want to express or changes I want to make, there's one guy: the director. It's different in television.

Writing for television is completely different from movie scriptwriting. A movie is all about the director's vision, but television is a writer's medium.

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

I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.

I love doing television; it's such a brilliant way to tell a story over six hours rather over the two hours of doing a movie.

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

I freely admit I know nothing about television or writing for the screen.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

I love writing for the screen.