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If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house without any bricks.

"Screenwriter John Patrick Shanley on 'Ups and Downs,' Taking Moonstruck to Broadway and the Plays That Inspired Him". Interview with Jon Chattman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house