Michael Arndt
Michael Arndt
Michael Arndt is an American screenwriter. He is best known as the writer of the films Little Miss Sunshine, Toy Story 3and Star Wars: The Force Awakens...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth22 November 1970
CountryUnited States of America
Michael Arndt quotes about
writing easy deceptive
Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.
writing doe private-parts
The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.
writing tasks scripts
Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.
character writing talking
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.
writing ideas two
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.
lonely real writing
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.
writing self-confidence way
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.
character writing cutting
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.
writing successful law
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.
character writing differences
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.
writing thinking rocks
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.
art favorite films represents
One of my favorite films is 'Late Spring' by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.
emotional self-improvement fluidity
The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.
self-improvement lines action
Line up your thoughts up for potential, take action and success will follow.