At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.
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There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.
Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.
Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.
It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.
A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.
More and more, I've started to understand that no show is dead unless somebody decrees it's dead at a studio.
A lot of times, scripts are written so the character is all one way. Even with 'Bringing Out the Dead,' the character was written a little more generic.
There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
Sometimes the writing can be so good that the actor doesn't really have to do anything.
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