Michael Arndt Quotes

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• Adversity challenges the masks we hide behind, revealing sides of ourselves we have not yet comfortably with the world outside. It is why we dislike…
• All thought is created, therefore we are all creators of whatever world we live in.
• 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.
• Every problem offers an opportunity for a solution. if you are in the right frame of mind to find it.
• Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.
• If you only know something one way, then you don't really know it.
• Line up your thoughts up for potential, take action and success will follow.
• The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.
• The way you think either stands in your way or assists you in achieving your goals.
• We have the freedom to excel or inhibit our potential. You are the grand designer of your thoughts and emotions. At some level or another…
• Who you think you are is only a thought.
• I had read enough mediocre scripts and was determined not to inflict another one on the world.
• 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…
• My thing is that most scripts arent bad scripts, theyre just not finished yet.
• Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.
• A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.
• One of my favorite films is LATE SPRING by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.
• My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.
• The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.
• Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.

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