John August

Most times a person grows up gradually, but I found myself in a hurry... Hoping to find an answer, I uncovered an…

— John August

I knew that Weird Girl was going to be kind of amazing. The secret truth of Weird Girl is that I put…

— John August

Every once in awhile, Allison Abbate would drop a note and say, "It's going really well!," and I was like, "Great!" So,…

— John August

You know something has really stuck in Tim's head when he's drawn what the character looks like. Weird Girl and Elsa actually…

— John August

Preacher is a great frustration because I thought it was done, and then it got put in the press notes for the…

— John August

For Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, he came to me and said, "I want to do everything that's in the book, and…

— John August

I often say that a lot of my job, as a screenwriter, is sort of being a stock picker, in that I…

— John August

I counted it up once. I think I have written 45 full screenplays. Of those, maybe 15 have been shot, in some…

— John August

I convinced Tim to add one song, and then we added five. We changed a lot of things while we were shooting,…

— John August

Now, it's common knowledge that most towns of a certain size have a witch, if only to eat misbehaving children and the…

— John August

Frankenweenie is also about mortality, but at a very different stage. It's losing a parent versus losing a dog. I don't run…

— John August

Josh [Friedman] and I have been friends for years, and he said, "Hey, if you ever want to do a TV show,…

— John August

I knew that this was the movie in which a lot of the cinema version of Burton-esque first started. So, I knew…

— John August

With Corpse Bride, I saw a lot more of it during the process because we were changing things a lot. When I…

— John August

I've always written towards movies that take place across two worlds. Most of the movies that I've worked on take place in…

— John August

Big Fish was the first movie that we worked on together, and I had already written it. We had another director, but…

— John August

The producers and I first talked about the Big Fish musical, right before we did the first test screening of the movie.…

— John August

One of those strange things that happens in movies is that you need someone to actually say people's names, or else you…

— John August

When Tim asked me to do Frankenweenie, he had his original sketches from before he did the short, of what Sparky looked…

— John August

I loved The Sarah Connor Chronicles that Josh did, and I loved that it was a family drama with a huge, different…

— John August

Keeping the cat front-and-center was definitely a smart choice, from Tim and the animation department. Mr. Whiskers got referred to more than…

— John August

You're looking, moment by moment and scene by scene, how you can tell the most interesting story. So, we had this great…

— John August

Like Frankenweenie is a story about a boy and his dog, Big Fish is the story of a father and his son,…

— John August

I just always remember myself as the teenager with questions about movies and screenwriting. I would hope that there was somebody out…

— John August