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Another thing that makes the process different is we go in there and are completely immersed in [that] world for however many weeks and then we would leave and they would be animating for however many weeks and we

Another thing that makes the process different is we go in there and are completely immersed in [that] world for however many weeks and then we would leave and they would be animating for however many weeks and we wouldn't have anything to do with it. Then we would come back and see all this work that they had done. So it just took a lot more time than it would on anything else.

John Francis Daley
Different, Would Be, Done
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You become sort of insulated in this bubble when you're working on something that it's hard to have an outsider's perspective on what works and what doesn't so it's always good to see what other people think.

John Francis Daley
Thinking, People, Perspective
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As an actor going into screenwriting, I was able to understand what type of dialogue feels natural. A lot of the time, as an actor, you don't have the freedom to change what your lines are, and they can often be very unnatural or difficult to portray in a real light.

John Francis Daley
Real, Light, Often Is
"Exclusive: Screenwriters John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein Talk HORRIBLE BOSSES, BURT WONDERSTONE, OF ALL THE THINGS, VACATION Reboot, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 8, 2011.

We always for better or worse try to put on paper what's going up on screen - whether we're directing it or not. It's really just an extension of that habit which is trying to tell the reader what the movie will look like. Ultimately that is the job of a screenwriter to a certain extent.

John Francis Daley
Jobs, Trying, Looks
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I had always been interested in screenwriting, ever since I could write things down as a child. Obviously, I started as an actor, professionally, but screenwriting was always something that I had a great interest in.

John Francis Daley
Children, Writing, Actors
"Exclusive: Screenwriters John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein Talk HORRIBLE BOSSES, BURT WONDERSTONE, OF ALL THE THINGS, VACATION Reboot, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 8, 2011.

You have to have all these elements of a feature but with a third of the length. And also the development process - there are so many more steps in getting notes from the studio, getting notes from the network.

John Francis Daley
Elements, Development, Steps
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I think that's pretty crucial for it to succeed and be something more than just something you put your kid in front of and turn on the DVD. We wouldn't have got involved if it were just for little kids. We wanted to write something that works on both levels.

John Francis Daley
Writing, Kids, Thinking
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It's like live action if you reshot every scene a million times after finishing the movie. Because even apparently by the very end, a few weeks before they were screening it for the world premiere, they were making changes. That's just simply something you can't do on live action.

John Francis Daley
Finishing, World, Action
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I would visit Vegas every year when I was a kid. Vegas, to a kid, is a playground, as much as it is to adults. I discovered the magic store in a hotel and would spend hours and hours in there.

John Francis Daley
Kids, Years, Vegas

I enjoy both acting and screenwriting, in completely different ways. You have more creative freedom with writing because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have creative freedom because you don't so much focus on what has to move the story along, and only on how your character is reacting to situations.

John Francis Daley
Moving, Writing, Character
Source: collider.com

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