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A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.

— Tom Stoppard

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✓Similar Perspectives

Sometimes the writing can be so good that the actor doesn't really have to do anything.

— Nick Nolte

Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough.

— Dan Brown

Generally, screenplays suck.

— Grant Heslov

Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.

— Steven Bochco

The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt.

— Andrew Davies

Movies are an editor's medium.

— Stephen Root

Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

— Tony Gilroy

Being an actor, we're so dependent on the writers.

— Amy Ryan

✗Opposing Perspectives

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.

— John le Carre

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

— Richard Attenborough