We've rewritten entire scenes and had them animated twelve hours before the show goes on the air. It's not fun.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When we first started, everything was animated, everything was comedy, and there was really nothing that was longer than about two minutes, because that's all audiences would watch.
It's a lot of a workload doing an hour dramatic show. It's just incredible what little time off you get.
The shows are either 11 or 22 minutes and they move pretty quickly, and that's part of the charm of them - so it was just trying to keep that in mind and keep the energy of the story moving, even though we were dealing with a longer format.
Especially in the last 10 years, the writing on animated shows has jumped by leaps and bounds.
Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.
There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes.
It takes a lot out of you to do a one-hour episodic lead of a show. I don't think actors realize that when they take the job.
I have so much respect for television actors and directors. We're on set doing 16-hour days, and that's just what we do.
In a film you only get two hours to do this big arc and so you have to pick and choose your moments carefully, but with television you get to take your time and just take it episode by episode and discover new things.
On a television show, you basically make a movie a week. Movies take three months - it's crazy. They're so slow, it's like vacation to me.