I think great writers should write great shows, and I have trouble with, like, what you are in life shouldn't automatically make you what you do in your art. It doesn't necessarily translate.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever.
As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very established tone and format, after a while it's a really great job, but that's what it is - a job.
I'm sort lucky in that for me, I'm a writer now. I started as an actor but I'm a writer and so things like 'Wilfred' and shows like that are where I escape to.
To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.
As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.
Great writing makes great television.
When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.
We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.
It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.