The idea of 'Napoleon Dynamite' as an animated series made perfect sense to me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you do a film as unique and original as 'Napoleon Dynamite,' it's hard then try to repeat what audiences loved the first time.
I developed a theory that, in many ways, the early 'Andy Griffith' episodes especially were an awful lot like a Capra movie. They were a lot like 'Mr. Deeds' or a lot like 'It's a Wonderful Life' in tone and presentation.
I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.
There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell a story.
If you are going to describe the history of animation, you'd look at the early Disney work, then 'Bugs Bunny,' 'Road Runner' and other Warner Brothers theatrical productions. But when you got to 'Rocky and Bullwinkle,' you'd see they were unique: They assumed you had a brain in your head.
When I look at 'Napoleon Dynamite's style I'm reminded of how I spoke when I was an eight-year-old boy. It was just like capturing the essence of, 'Duh!' It was just like the stuff that I would say when I was like eight, nine, ten years old.
When you think about it, 'Avatar' is almost completely an animated movie.
'Napoleon' is pure cinema, and cinema was designed for sharing.
'Napoleon Dynamite' blew up my career.
I couldn't love a movie much more than 'Dazed and Confused.' I would argue that 'Dazed and Confused: The Series' would have been very much like 'Freaks and Geeks.' And that died a painful death because it was too good.