The whole thrust of theatre is different, just because the writing is so much more respected in a play. Whereas in movies - and having been the writer, I can say from experience - the writer is lower down on the food chain.
On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that.
We joke a lot about how, in Hollywood, the writer is one step below the doormat. That's not self-loathing. That's true!
Lindsay Doran goes round the table and introduces everyone - making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.
I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.
I think the writer's quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I'd have thought, slightly more risky.
If you appear in the 'Atlantic' or 'Harper's' or the 'New Yorker,' by God, you must be a writer, because everybody says so.
The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.
I was disinclined to have the status of a writer.
It makes me proud not just to be a Canadian writer but to be a Canadian, to live in a country where we treat our writers like movie stars.
There is no sense in which Mohammed is viewed as a writer.
I'm a cult writer now. I have a cult readership.
There is no such thing as an "aspiring writer". You are a writer. Period.
