Occupation: Animator Birth: September 13, 1937
You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business..
I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was the enthusiasm t….
How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?.
I'm also very pleased that we were able to include a full orchestrated score for Dragon's Lair 3D. The 40 different music pieces blend with the actio….
The heart of Dragon's Lair has always been its compelling story. With Dragon's Lair 3D, we think the team has really created an interactive animated ….
With movies, you are always in search is a good story, one that everyone will relate to and love. I love finding those stories and creating a visual ….
Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks great or it's a gr….
You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way..
When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry..
If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an animated film, because that's total character. This, this is really movemen….
The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action fi….
I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action….
But I've been surprised over the years. I mean, someone told me the other day that maybe 360 million people have played this game in the world. That'….
I think the work that they do and the style of 3D graphics is absolutely fabulous and I think it's a great brush to use for some stories. And there a….
The only one that seems to be able to hold the business is Disney. They do it is because they have a fabulous philosophy about marketing- but even th….
Reese Witherspoon. She's sophisticated enough that you just like her. You like her and she's smart..
As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director's job is to make ….
We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will..
Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one en….
There's about 260 rooms in the new castle which you go through, but it's all about the game play..
It's whatever sells; it's the business of it..