With animated film, you have to create the sonic world; there's nothing there. You get to color things in more and you're allowed to overreach yourself a little bit more, and it's great fun.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.
In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you should do everything you want.
I love animated movies in general. I like making them.
To direct a genuinely animated film, you're really having meetings and discussing what you want with animators who then go off and produce one shot at a time that you look at and comment on.
Doing an animation is nothing like anything you could ever experience. You get to be a kid again and just play dress up in a movie studio.
I think, in Japan, animation isn't relegated to being a genre unto itself. It's just a medium by which you can tell any number of stories, be it horror or action or adventure or drama or whatever, and we're trying to do that as well. Every film that you go see from Pixar, we're hoping is a little bit of a surprise.
The great thing about the animation process is that is goes from, I write the lines, it goes to the actors, the actors bring a whole world to that, they bring the characters to life, then it goes to the animators, then it goes to the editor who cuts it together, and then you screen it and it goes back through the system again.
I'm interested in animation. I actually feel like I've learned so much about the process how to make an animated movie.
I don't think I would want to do an animated movie because I've already made so many hours of animation that what's the point? I'd want something new and weird to challenge me in a different way.
I completely understand the responsibility I have in continuing the sonic style that I have created.