'Jodie Foster is able to so intelligently talk about the arc of the story': interview with actress Genevieve Adams

It's a difficult question, because in acting you surrender all control to an imaginary world that someone else invented, and in writing you assert your control over an imaginary world you created. So each discipline exercises a very different set of muscles. I will say that acting is liberating in a way that writing is most often not - in order to be present, on stage or on film, you have to get out of your own head. Writing encourages you to be inside your own head, in a way. Acting is also social in a way that writing is not. You get the opportunity to bond with people - you can become part of a tribe of artists and go on a wild journey together, and that's the really rare and beautiful part of acting. Being a writer is more like being a sculptor or a painter - you work alone, so you can control everything, and you get the opportunity to pour all your love into a thing that didn't exist before, which is an awesome thing to be able to do. Both are ripe with frustration and ecstasy, and each experience is different. I also love writing parts for myself to act in - that's when the two processes connect, which can be exhilarating.