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The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.
If you only know something one way, then you don't really know it.
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 in my head at any one time, so it can get a little crowded in there.
Who you think you are is only a thought.
The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.
The way you think either stands in your way or assists you in achieving your goals.
One of my favorite films is 'Late Spring' by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.
In live-action, writing, production, and editing happen in discrete stages. In animation, they overlap - happening simultaneously. This allows a real dialogue to occur between the writer, the director, the actors, and the editor, and it makes the writing process a lot more collaborative and a lot less lonely.
We have the freedom to excel or inhibit our potential. You are the grand designer of your thoughts and emotions. At some level or another you are the one who chooses which thoughts to accept and which ones to ignore. That can be a very empower realization.
The number one metaphor I have in my mind for writing a screenplay is that ... you're trying to climb a mountain blindfolded. And the funny thing about that is, you think, 'Okay, that's hard because you're climbing up a rock face, and you don't know where you're going, and you don't know where the top is, you can't see what's below you ... ' But actually the hardest part about climbing a mountain blindfolded is just finding the mountain.
Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.
Adversity challenges the masks we hide behind, revealing sides of ourselves we have not yet comfortably with the world outside. It is why we dislike adversity, because we have to face what we don't yet understand about ourselves.
Line up your thoughts up for potential, take action and success will follow.
My thing is that most scripts arent bad scripts, theyre just not finished yet.
Changing how you think costs you no money and it takes no special talent. It does take a commitment on your part to be different.
I had read enough mediocre scripts and was determined not to inflict another one on the world.
Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.
