I'm not complaining about doing 20-hour days. It's a joy to be able to work on yet another film.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To make a film is eighteen months of your life. It's seven days a week. It's twenty hours a day.
I've never done a movie that's shot more than 40 days because I just don't do those kinds of films.
I don't envy the job of people who have to watch five movies a day - that's insane.
It takes a lot of time and a lot of energy and a lot of focus and dedication to do a film, and it's just not worth it if you're going to be miserable for even a day.
In truth, making films doesn't feel like hard work because I always have such a good time doing it.
There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.
If I'm really feeling good and not having a lot of interruptions, I can do a minute of animation a day, so theoretically, I could do a film in three months without any interruptions.
When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.
I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary.
I get quite fed up being on a film set day after day, six days a week. It can get to be a grind.