Peace is the only battle worth waging.
America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.
Negotiating with Disney isn't like good copbad cop; it's like bad copAntichrist.
People used to want to be filmmakers and animators; now they want to make apps.
I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it.
I like the idea of seeing a film that has the artist's hand in there,a film where you can see his strokes, you can see his working patterns. It's like going to a museum and seeing a Renoir drawing. You want to see their work and you want to see how they put it together. For me to see that in animation is really fresh, it's really exciting, it's really original.
Im very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.
If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue [not intellectual], for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.
There's always going to be haters. And the more hate you get, the better you are doing.
I don't get discouraged because of the comments. After all, they don't really know me.
I think participating in "Gishwhes" is a crash course in facing our fears: people go to crowded shopping malls wearing scuba gear, order from a fast food restaurant in Shakespearean verse or jump out of airplanes among many other tasks.