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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.