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Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.

~Michael Arndt

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Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.

~Michael Arndt

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You never want your second act or the whole movie to just be this relentless march towards its goal. You want things to take the audience by surprise.

~Michael Arndt

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If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking.

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The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.

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A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

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Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

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My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.

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The great thing about the animation process is that is goes from, I write the lines, it goes to the actors, the actors bring a whole world to that, they bring the characters to life, then it goes to the animators, then it goes to the editor who cuts it together, and then you screen it and it goes back through the system again.

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In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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