If You Make Things Too Real, Sometimes

You Could Believe That Sinbad Could Fight A Skeleton Because That's From A Period In The Past, A Magical Period. But If You Had James Bond Fighting A Skeleton, It'd Be Almost Comical.

With All The Hype That Computer Graphics Has Been Getting, Everybody Thinks There's Nothing Better Than Cgi, But I Do Get A Lot Of Fan Mail Saying They Prefer Our Films To Anything With Cgi In It. I'm Grateful For That, And We Made Them On Tight Budgets, So They Were Considered B-pictures Because Of That. And, Now Here We Are, And They've Outlasted Many So-called A-pictures.

I Know Pretty Well In The Broad Sense What I'm Going To Do, Because I Have To Know That When We Shoot The Live-action, So That It'll Synchronize. Then I Know Pretty Well When I Get To The Animation Stage, What That Scene Requires.

That's Why I Never Became A Director. I Never Had Patience With People.

There’s A Strange Quality In Stop-motion Photography, Like In King Kong, That Adds To The Fantasy. If You Make Things Too Real, Sometimes You Bring It Down To The Mundane.