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Michael Arndt Quotes

Michael Arndt Quotes.

Adversity challenges the masks we hide behind, revealing sides of ourselves we have not yet comfortably with the world outside. It is why we dislike adversity, because we have to face what we don’t yet understand about ourselves.
Michael Arndt
I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but for me, at least, there doesn’t seem to be any other way to start writing a script.
Michael Arndt
The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.
Michael Arndt
My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.
Michael Arndt
Changing how you think costs you no money and it takes no special talent. It does take a commitment on your part to be different.
Michael Arndt
The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.
Michael Arndt
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.
Michael Arndt
I can write two scripts concurrently, but I usually prefer to do one at a time. However, I also usually have 5 or 6 story ideas that are percolating in my head at any one time, so it can get a little crowded in there.
Michael Arndt
All thought is created, therefore we are all creators of whatever world we live in.
Michael Arndt
A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.
Michael Arndt
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.
Michael Arndt
Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice – it makes it seem easy.
Michael Arndt
In live-action, writing, production, and editing happen in discrete stages. In animation, they overlap – happening simultaneously. This allows a real dialogue to occur between the writer, the director, the actors, and the editor, and it makes the writing process a lot more collaborative and a lot less lonely.
Michael Arndt
If you only know something one way, then you don’t really know it.
Michael Arndt
Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.
Michael Arndt
In live-action, writing, production and editing happen in discrete stages. In animation, they overlap – happening simultaneously. This allows a real dialogue to occur between the writer, the director, the actors and the editor, and it makes the writing process a lot more collaborative and a lot less lonely.
Michael Arndt
Every problem offers an opportunity for a solution. if you are in the right frame of mind to find it.
Michael Arndt