Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.
A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.
As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.
I think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to write. But at the same time, I feel that writers are, of course, writing for their readers, too.
Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.
My theory is that everything an actor does, from the way he looks at his watch to the way he moves across the stage, is in the service of advancing a story, and in that sense, it's all writing. In that sense we, while acting, write.
Since I began making movies, I've always looked for screenwriters instead of going through the long and painful process of writing.