You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.
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In films of terror, it's often not about being graphic. Or if there is a graphic image, it's extremely swift. Everyone talks about the shower scene in 'Psycho,' but that's the only graphic scene in the entire film.
The title of the movie is open to interpretation.
I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films where visual imagery is integral to the story. It allows you to play with images.
The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.
We work very hard in all of the Pixar films to not make anything in the imagery that causes people to think of something other than the story.
The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story based on who's embodying it.
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.
You can read a character that feels amazing, but if the world around it and all the writing around it - even the way the stage descriptions are written - don't feel just right, then you know there's no point in doing the project. No character is ever bigger than the whole film.
You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.