Tom Skerritt
Tom Skerritt
Thomas Roy "Tom" Skerrittis an American actor who has appeared in more than forty films and more than two hundred television episodes since 1962. He is known for his roles in MASH, Alien, Top Gun, A River Runs Through It, Up in Smoke, and the television series Picket Fences. Skerritt has earned several awards and nominations, including an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1993 for Picket Fences...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth25 August 1933
CountryUnited States of America
As a very experienced writer once told me, 'It's in the rewrites'.
Rarely ever see or meet the writer during shooting.
TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer.
One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.
Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.
I'm currently trying to direct my own material.
Obviously, if a director doesn't communicative a clear, relevant vision of the material, it will not succeed no matter how good the material.
Just being hired by a great director is complimentary.