Michael Arndt Quotes, Thoughts and images

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.

Who you think you are is only a thought.

Line up your thoughts up for potential, take action and success will follow.

Every problem offers an opportunity for a solution. if you are in the right frame of mind to find it.

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.

A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.

All thought is created, therefore we are all creators of whatever world we live in.

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.

Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.

One of my favorite films is LATE SPRING by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

My thing is that most scripts arent bad scripts, theyre just not finished yet.

I had read enough mediocre scripts and was determined not to inflict another one on the world.

The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.

If you only know something one way, then you don't really know it.

The way you think either stands in your way or assists you in achieving your goals.

My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.