Meanwhile, the Ice Storm was still in development, And that was something I really wanted to do, and frankly I don't think I was ready to do a big production like this.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
'Ice Age' felt like stage acting. You'd write a sequence, and sometimes you'd submit pages, but other times, I would actually perform it for the directors and producer in my office.
'Ice Age 4' came totally out of nowhere for me. I was told Fox Animation was interested in hiring me as a story supervisor or something or other that sounded way too professional for me.
I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.
That's what I wanted to do... I wanted to make a great film that just happened to be based on a video game.
I always used to develop a cold going into the studio.
I am just a regular dude who happened to make it. That's all I am, man. Maybe I was preparing myself in some lifetime to become this person, but I never thought I'd have every rocket shooting off at one time.
'Snowpiercer' was out of this world. It gave me a chance to do something I'd never done before, to create a whole new world.
I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.
The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.
Probably some of the projects I chose to do after that had more to do with what people thought of me. The industry was very open and probably hoping that I could do anything.