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"Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue."
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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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"Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you."
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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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"You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way."
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"Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour."
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"So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team."
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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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"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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"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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"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."
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"Right now, writing for me is most rewarding because I'm old enough now to have something to say, which probably wasn't always the case."
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"There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!"
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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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"I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston."
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"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."
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"Write the kind of movie you would want to see, in a genre you love."
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"I am a big fan of the TV series Taxi which combined comedy and pathos better than any other show I've seen."
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"Unfortunately, all the cliches we see about Hollywood are true."
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"The major studios don't differ very much from one another as they all operate under essentially the same principles and pressure."
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