When Tim asked me to do Frankenweenie, he had his original sketches from before he did the short, of what Sparky looked like, and he drew Victor and …

- John August

I've always written towards movies that take place across two worlds. Most of the movies that I've worked on take place in two worlds, or sometimes t…

- John August

You're looking, moment by moment and scene by scene, how you can tell the most interesting story. So, we had this great short and we knew that we had…

- John August

Like Frankenweenie is a story about a boy and his dog, Big Fish is the story of a father and his son, and all those conversations you can't have. It'…

- John August

I convinced Tim to add one song, and then we added five. We changed a lot of things while we were shooting, which you should never do in stop-motion …

- John August

I often say that a lot of my job, as a screenwriter, is sort of being a stock picker, in that I need to figure out what movies are probably going to …

- John August

Now, it's common knowledge that most towns of a certain size have a witch, if only to eat misbehaving children and the occasional puppy who wanders i…

- John August

Keeping the cat front-and-center was definitely a smart choice, from Tim and the animation department. Mr. Whiskers got referred to more than we actu…

- John August

I just always remember myself as the teenager with questions about movies and screenwriting. I would hope that there was somebody out there who would…

- John August