The whole thrust of theatre is different, just because the writing is so much more respected in a play. Whereas in movies - and having been the writer, I can say from experience - the writer is lower down on the food chain.
On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that.
We joke a lot about how, in Hollywood, the writer is one step below the doormat. That's not self-loathing. That's true!
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.
I think the writer's quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I'd have thought, slightly more risky.
I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.
If you appear in the 'Atlantic' or 'Harper's' or the 'New Yorker,' by God, you must be a writer, because everybody says so.
The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.
I was disinclined to have the status of a writer.
There is no sense in which Mohammed is viewed as a writer.
It makes me proud not just to be a Canadian writer but to be a Canadian, to live in a country where we treat our writers like movie stars.
There is no such thing as an "aspiring writer". You are a writer. Period.
I'm a cult writer now. I have a cult readership.
