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"Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue."
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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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"But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity."
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"I became much happier when I realized I shouldn't depend solely on my career for my sense of self. So I developed other interests and surrounded myself with a small group of friends I could trust."
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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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"Unfortunately, all the cliches we see about Hollywood are true."
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"Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue."
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"Originality is, for me, the most important quality in a script."
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"Working in Hollywood can be tumultuous, with incredible highs and lows and you need to be grounded."
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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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"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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"It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong."
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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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"We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will."
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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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"Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue."
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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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"The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now."
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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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"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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