My goal in life is to become an adjective.
Akira Kurosawa is the pictorial William Shakespeare of our time.
Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.
When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.
Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.
Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.
I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story.
If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.
It's all been rather lovely.
I gave up smoking, I never gave up the drinking. But it's hard to smoke and swim at the same time. You'd get to the edge of the pool and all you'd be wanting is a cigarette when all you actually really want is oxygen. So I traded the smoke for the oxygen.
I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career.