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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 14 quotes by Michael Arndt Michael Arndt is an American screenwriter. A graduate of New York University, Arndt is best known for his first produced screenplay Little Miss Sunshine, for which he received multiple awards including the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Arndt is also well known for his second screenplay from the film Toy Story 3, for which he also received multiple awards and nominations including a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted... Read full biography of Michael Arndt → 1 2 Ctrl → In live-action, writing, production, and editing happen in discrete stages. In animation, they overlap - happening simultaneously. This allows a real... → 0 Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy. 0 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... → 0 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. 0 Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task. 0 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... → 0 A good story is a good story, whatever the medium. 0 My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there. 0 One of my favorite films is 'Late Spring' by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art. 0 The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you. 0 Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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