Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: The Jordan Harbinger Show
Episode: 1077: Michael Arndt | The Oscar-Winning Science of Storytelling
Description: Want to write a great screenplay? Little Miss Sunshine writer Michael Arndt shares secrets from Pixar, Hollywood, and a decade of script doctoring!
What We Discuss with Michael Arndt:
Success in screenwriting often requires extreme persistence and resilience — Michael Arndt wrote 10 screenplays over 10 years before selling Little Miss Sunshine, and even then did about 100 drafts of that script before it was ready.
The best stories often create a "tilted universe" where the protagonist is a response to or antidote to the negative values of their world (like Robin Hood emerging in response to an unjust system, or...