James McAvoy “I’d rather be working in a green screen studio with a good script, than working in a beautifully realized physical location that has a bad script.”
[interviewed by Sophie Raworth on ‘The Andrew Marr Show’, BBC, May 25, 2014]

James McAvoy? Actor: The Last King of Scotland, Atonement, the young version of Charles Xavier, the Patrick Stewart character in X-Men, and not forgetting Mr Tumnus in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Why am I quoting an actor, not a writer? Because he supports good writing. And he likes superheroes. Each faces a human crisis, he explains: “They are all persecuted, they are all closeted, ghettoised…”

To visit James McAvoy’s website, click here.
To watch part of the BBC interview with James McAvoy, click here.

If you agree with James McAvoy, perhaps you will agree with:-
Lauren Owen – family relationships are very interesting
Barbara Taylor-Bradford – for me it all starts with a memorable character
Ruby Wax – I always ask the booksellers to look at me and recommend a book

And if you’d like to tweet a link to THIS post, here’s my suggested tweet:
I agree with James McAvoy: better a good script & bad location http://wp.me/p5gEM4-12F via @SandraDanby #amwriting