Quotes by Michael Arndt - Page 1

Who you think you are is only a thought.
Michael Arndt / Screenwriter
Improvement
Self Improvement
Thinking
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A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.
Michael Arndt / Screenwriter
Good Story
Mediums
Stories
Medium
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My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.
Michael Arndt / Screenwriter
Mediocre
Screenplays
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If you only know something one way, then you don't really know it.
Michael Arndt / Screenwriter
Knows
Self Improvement
Way
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Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.
Michael Arndt / Screenwriter
Graduate School
Graduates
Pixar
School
Screenwriting
Graduate
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Line up your thoughts up for potential, take action and success will follow.
Michael Arndt / Screenwriter
Action
Lines
Self Improvement
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The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.
Michael Arndt / Screenwriter
Doe
Private Parts
Writing
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My thing is that most scripts arent bad scripts, theyre just not finished yet.
Michael Arndt / Screenwriter
Finished
Scripts
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All thought is created, therefore we are all creators of whatever world we live in.
Michael Arndt / Screenwriter
Improvement
Self Improvement
World
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The way you think either stands in your way or assists you in achieving your goals.
Michael Arndt / Screenwriter
Goal
Self Improvement
Thinking
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Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.
Michael Arndt / Screenwriter
Artifice
Deceptive
Easy
Good Writing
Writing
Hides
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One of my favorite films is LATE SPRING by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.
Michael Arndt / Screenwriter
Art
Film
Spring
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One of my favorite films is 'Late Spring' by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.
Michael Arndt / Screenwriter
Film
Late
Spring
Favorite
Films
Represents
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Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.
Michael Arndt / Screenwriter
Scripts
Tasks
Writing
Great One
Script
Task
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I had read enough mediocre scripts and was determined not to inflict another one on the world.
Michael Arndt / Screenwriter
Determined
Scripts
World
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Every problem offers an opportunity for a solution. if you are in the right frame of mind to find it.
Michael Arndt / Screenwriter
Opportunity
Mind
Self Improvement
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The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.
Michael Arndt / Screenwriter
Emotional
Fluidity
Self Improvement
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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.
Michael Arndt / Screenwriter
Commitment
Special
Thinking
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It drives me crazy when people say, "All we're trying to do is create entertainment." I feel like people go to movies for more than that.
Michael Arndt / Screenwriter
Crazy
People
Trying
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Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.
Michael Arndt / Screenwriter
Perception
Process
Self Improvement
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You never want your second act or the whole movie to just be this relentless march towards its goal. You want things to take the audience by surprise.
Michael Arndt / Screenwriter
Goal
March
Relentless
Surprise
Want
Towards
Just Be
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If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking.
Michael Arndt / Screenwriter
Bunch
Character
Different Characters
Different Opinions
Standing
Talking
Writing
Opinions
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In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.
Michael Arndt / Screenwriter
Animation
Character
Differences
Good Story
Writing
Initially
Medium
No Difference
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I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but for me, at least, there doesn't seem to be any other way to start writing a script.
Michael Arndt / Screenwriter
Self Confidence
Way
Writing
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I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but (for me, at least) there doesn't seem to be any other way to start writing a script.
Michael Arndt / Screenwriter
Delusional
Any Other Way
Burst
Me Start Way
Fade
Screenplay
Tends
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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.
Michael Arndt / Screenwriter
Crowded
Ideas
One Time
Scripts
Two
Writing
Prefer
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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.
Michael Arndt / Screenwriter
Adversity
Challenges
Self Improvement
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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.
Michael Arndt / Screenwriter
Empowering
Realization
Self Improvement
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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.
Michael Arndt / Screenwriter
Lonely
Real
Writing
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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.
Michael Arndt / Screenwriter
Animation
Dialogue
Discrete
Editing
Lonely
Writing Process
Editor
Occur
Overlap
Simultaneously
Stages
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The great thing about the animation process is that is goes from, I write the lines, it goes to the actors, the actors bring a whole world to that, they bring the characters to life, then it goes to the animators, then it goes to the editor who cuts it together, and then you screen it and it goes back through the system again.
Michael Arndt / Screenwriter
Animation
Character
Cutting
Lines
Process
Together
Whole
Writing
Life Great World
Life Great Together
Actor
Again
Animators
Bring
Cuts
Editor
Goes
Great Thing
Screen
System
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I figured I’d probably write 50 scripts in my life. Out of those 50, I figured maybe five would be produced, and that maybe one or two would be successful. So I always kind of expected I’d write at least one successful film in my life. [...] The way it all came together was kind of like Murphy's law in reverse—I don’t expect that kind of experience again any time soon.
Michael Arndt / Screenwriter
Law
Successful
Writing
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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.
Michael Arndt / Screenwriter
Numbers
Thinking
Writing
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