"Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue."

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"Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue."

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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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"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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"Working in Hollywood can be tumultuous, with incredible highs and lows and you need to be grounded."

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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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"I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston."

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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 love all of Albert Brooks' work from Defending Your Life back to his first film, Real Life, but am sorry that he seems to have lost his edge in his more recent work."

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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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