I Wouldn't Say That I'm Particularly Bothered

The Thing With Animation Is That You Record The Actors Like A Radio Show And Then The Animators Become Actors In Their Own Way Because It's Their Job To Take This Puppets And Make Them Seem Alive. They Bring Their Own Personalities To The Way They Move These Puppets.

On Fantastic Mr. Fox, I Got Used To Working With Animated Storyboards As A Way Of Planning For The Shoot. We Did A Lot Of Sequences That Way With This Movie. Partly As A Result Of That, I Decided To Build More Sets In Order To Do Certain Shots.

One Of The Things I Enjoyed The Most Is Just Working As An Actor.

I Didn't Think So Much Of Him At First. But Now I Get It: He's Everything That I'm Not.

If Somebody Asks Me About The Themes Of Something I'm Working On, I Never Have Any Idea What The Themes Are. . . . Somebody Tells Me The Themes Later. I Sort Of Try To Avoid Developing Themes. I Want To Just Keep It A Little Bit More Abstract. But Then, What Ends Up Happening Is, They Say, 'well, I See A Lot Here That You Did Before, And It's Connected To This Other Movie You Did,' And . . . That Almost Seems Like Something I Don't Quite Choose. It Chooses Me.