A script can just be a blueprint, and you've got to go in and build it and color it in and paint it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The script is just a blueprint.
To make the script, you need ideas, and for me a lot of times, a final script is made up of many fragments of ideas that came at different times.
I get a script and it's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.
Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.
I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something.
It's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.
You can write a script, but that's just a starting point as a cartoonist. The heart of the process comes when you start to draw it, and you work out how to lay the page out, how best to tell the story.
A script is a unique literary form, because it's not the end product; it's a blueprint. If you're not thinking of that end product, there's going to be a disconnect.
I always feel like a script is a recipe, and then you bring the elements into the recipe, and you cook with it.
The script is the coloring book that you're given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.