Inspiration comes from all different places.
Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.
Movies are not a growth business.
I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made.
What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.
I think the idea of a traditional story being told using traditional animation is likely a thing of the past.
The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology.
A company like DreamWorks, all we do is make product. That's all we do. We don't own distribution. We are purely in the creation of content.
If you go running, you put on sneakers. When you go bowling, you take your personal bowling balls with you. In much the same fashion, it won't be long before you have your special sunglasses to take to the movie theater.
I haven't got a lot of patience.
When you're dealing with clay animation, people forget that every single set is built to scale and by hand.
The entire exhibitions industry in the United States of America has filed for bankruptcy.
You can tell when an actor or actress cares about their work. It's really clear.
