The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.
If you only know something one way, then you don't really know it.
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 adversity, because we have to face what we don't yet understand about ourselves.
Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.
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.
