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25 | Q&A w/ Pixar's SOUL Screenwriter Mike Jones

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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How Do You Manage a Pile of Notes at Pixar?

At Pixar, you're not often allowed the luxury of that freak out, right? You have to sort of go home or go back in an hour and rewrite pages. My first answer is if you're going to get the kind of pile of notes that you get in some of these brain trust meetings, the best thing to do is not to go right because you're dealing with too much. And again, it's remarkable what I feel like a night of sleep doesBecause after a brain trust session, where I'm just where everything is suddenly really hot, everything is very emotional. The next morning in the, you know, new dawn, I think things look clear, clear, you know

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