There's more pressure as a writer. As an actor you usually just go, do your job, and go home.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.
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.
I don't like waiting around for work, and sometimes as an actor you're forced into that position, so that's sort of how I got into writing, producing and directing.
Sometimes the writing can be so good that the actor doesn't really have to do anything.
When you have another actor as your boss, they understand how to communicate easier sometimes than just a writer.
As an actor, sometimes you've gotta take the jobs that you may not want to do. It's so hard to work as an actor.
My background is really being a writer's actor - that seems to be the way I work best, bringing out the best of writing. There's a whole range of acting skills, and some people can be astonishing with very poor material. That's not me; my skill is essentially unlocking the writing.
Actors want to act. I think a lot of times what happens is that they're expected to bring it all. Probably because I'm a writer, I'm not telling them what to do. I just provide them with as much as I can.
Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you.
Being an actor, we're so dependent on the writers.