All of them have been hand-copied by the artist's father, who doesn't know either language, in meticulous cursive script.
Words that invite the reader to climb the tree form a textual soil; a trunk of words emerges, giving way to varied branches — sentences leading upward to 17 intertwined circles of fruit, each shaped by meticulous calligraphic script.
Not long after I met him, he told me about the close bond that he had with his father, a physicist, who, starting at the age of nine, wrote in a diary every day: meticulous Hebrew script, filling page after page.
Since then he has made more than 30 films, both short and long, all of them fine examples of his gift for meticulous plotting and tight scripting.
"Summer '04" is so plainly the product of meticulous forethought that the shooting script might have been etched on marble slabs.
He never went before the camera without a polished script and was a meticulous craftsman while shooting, despite the apparent nonchalance he exuded on the floor.
Schwartzman's performance as Max Fischer, a hubristic prodigy, is itself prodigious, and it's all the more so inasmuch as Anderson (who wrote the script with Owen Wilson) is a meticulous director, a virtual choreographer of gestures and inflections.
It was an experience that took meticulous planning, was storyboarded like a film script and was the product of a 36 hour brainstorming session.
The international body for forensic scientists, scene of crime officers, police and those working in related disciplines has embraced the Prime Suspect creator as one of its own for the meticulous research that goes into her novels and television scripts.
