I think that's what good writing is all about. You go into a genre to talk about other things. Tolkein created a whole world to talk about the world he lived in.
I am baffled by good writing.
I subscribe to about 200 blogs. I look for insights and good writing, and I look to get smarter.
When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character.
As an actor, you are in a unique position because you're not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing.
You just can't make bad writing look good. But if you have good writing, you just say it, and it's almost done.
All good writing comes out of aloneness.
As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.
I believe good writing can save bad art.
Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.
I read a lot of scripts, and there's a lot of good writing and a lot of OK writing and a lot of crappy writing. And even with the really good writing, it doesn't necessarily speak to me.
Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.
Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal monologue, none of which works on screen.
