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"Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue."
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"Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation."
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"The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards."
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"Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue."
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"I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in."
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"We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will."
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"It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong."
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"In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing."
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"You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way."
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"Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you."
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"Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked."
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"The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards."
Animation
"When I saw The Player, I came out with knots in my stomach because it was so true to my experience."
Experience
"I used to love Woody Allen but feel he's become a hack as a director. Bullets Over Broadway is the only film of his I've enjoyed in the last 10 years."
Love
"That said, I should also add that I learned a great deal from being allowed in these privileged circles and am grateful for the opportunity to have worked closely with some of the most powerful and successful people in the business including Steven Spielberg and Ted Turner."
Business
"I was only in one play at Steppenwolf, in the early days."
Play
"There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!"
People
"I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project."
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"I know a lot of people in the business recommend the many Story Structure seminars being offered here, but I point to them as the single biggest contributor to lousy scripts."
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"But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity."
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"Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue."
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