I think every American kid grows up dreaming about being in the movies. That's completely normal for us. But I mostly wanted to be a writer, and I got taught the scriptwriting program.
There's always been a little bit of tension between the writers of science fiction literature and then science-fiction televised shows or movies, partly because they have a different dynamic.
The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies, and I'm a better moviemaker than I would be writer.
I don't worry about what everyone wants to see. I make movies that please a writer, director and myself. I always think there are enough people smart as me and sensitive as me.
Ben Geisler: Think about it, Fink! Writers come and go; we always need Indians!
The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
When I got recognized as a writer, when I got the Emmy, I was more excited than the Emmys I had gotten as an actor.
In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.
Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.
Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer.
I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.
It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.
Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.
It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a bad writer - that is, an incompetent practitioner of applied linguistics.
When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers, so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die.
On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.
Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.
Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.
I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.
I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers.
