Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.
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Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.
I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.
I think part of the fun of being an actor is getting to work with different directors and seeing their take on it, what they're passionate about. They all have different ideas about your character.
As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.
Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.
I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.
It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.
I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.
A lot of directors, they're creative, but they're different.
I think the writing skills of actors are sometimes underestimated.