Dirk benedict

It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.

Movies are movies, television is television.

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present.

I never get involved with the ladies I work with.

Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.

Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.

Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.

To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.