If You Establish Rules And Play By

I Have A Lot Of Films That I Haven't Gotten Made, And That Continues To Trouble Me. But Someday, Some Way Or Another, I Think I Will. It's All About Timing. There's A Moment When You're Hot And Studios Will Make Your Next Film, And Then There's A Moment When You're Really Cold, And They Couldn't Care Less What You Want To Do Next. That's When You Have To Recede And Make Lower-budgeted Films.

I Didn't Have Any Set Idea Of What Kind Of Filmmaker I Wanted To Be. I Knew I Wanted To Tell Stories That Meant Something To Me, But I Never Said I Was Going To Be The Weird, Avant-garde Guy.

Whatever Story You Want To Tell, Tell It At The Right Size.

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.

There Are So Many Great Artists, I Think, Who Kind Of Suffer From Being Icons, Legends, Acknowledged Masters.