As A Teenager, I Wanted To Write

That's The History Of Art - You Have To Consider Yourself Fortunate If You Ever Get Acknowledged. If You Have A Critical Success That's Also A Financial Success And That You Feel Good About... If Things Line Up, That's Pretty Rare.

All I've Learned Is That You Need The Studio System Sometimes, If Your Budget Is A Certain Size, And Other Films You Can Do Independently. When I Think Of A Studio, I Generally Think Of Distribution. Since I'm A Director, I Have A Similar Creative Experience On Every Film I Do, Because I Can Control That. But Then It's A Different Film, I Think, As It Reaches The Public, Depending On The Way It's Marketed. I Don't Know. I Haven't Learned Much Of Anything. Sometimes You Need Them, Sometimes You Don't. Sometimes They Want You, Most Of The Time They Don't.

If The Animators Could Hide Something So Secretly That I Could Watch It Numerous Times, Both On The Computer And On The Screen, And Not Pick Up On It, Then It Deserves To Be In The Movie. But If They Had More Overt Things, I'd Often Tell Them To Cut It Out. In General, As Long As They Captured The Spirit Of The Character, Then They're Fine. But Sometimes It Took A While, And We Had To Replace A Lot Of Animators.

It's Kinda Like D.h. Lawrence Had This Idea Of Two People Meeting On A Road, And Instead Of Just Passing And Glancing Away, They Decide To Accept What He Calls The Confrontation Between Their Souls. It's Like Freeing The Brave, Reckless Gods Within Us All.

I've Always Been Most Interested In The Politics Of Everyday Life: Your Relation To Whatever You're Doing, Or What Your Ambitions Are, Where You Live, Where You Find Yourself In The Social Hierarchy.