A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.
A writer is a palmist, reading the lines of the planet.
What has always been at the heart of film making was the value of a script. It was really the writer who could make or break a film. But as we all know, the writer has always been at the bottom of the creative heap.
I was a writer on '30 Rock' for six years.
My ambition in life is to be associated with a good film. And I feel that a writer has a more important role to play for the society than an actor.
The writer and the director are ultimately responsible for what is portrayed and glorified in a film. Then comes the producer.
Lindsay Doran goes round the table and introduces everyone - making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.
That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.
What's fun now is that I have a show at USA that I co-wrote called 'Benched.' I'm completely behind the scenes and not the actor at all.
I pay tribute to the writing always. The writer is a creative artist and the director is an interpretive artist and the actors are interpretive. You take zero and make it into something, that's always amazing to me.
Most written work is a conversation between the editor and the writer, that the writer essentially fulfills in public, and the editor provides the stage for that to happen as well as the prompts.
Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.
Actually the writer is the most important part of the filmmaking process. That's why I never hesitate in giving credit to a writer which I don't think even Hollywood does.
