One of my favorite films is LATE SPRING by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.
If you only know something one way, then you don't really know it.
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.
My thing is that most scripts arent bad scripts, theyre just not finished yet.
The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.
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.