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It was always about the story rather than the character.

Rather than just making a movie about video games, I wanted to start with the character and what the character was going through.

It is very grand and sumptuous and awesome to look at but it was really about the characters for me.

I try to research or make up for myself what happened in any character's life. From when he was born until the first page of the script. I fill in the blanks.

After a while, the character sort of took over.

Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.

A story is built on characters and reasons.

I made the character as much of myself as I could.

Having the Stitch character, the villain that becomes a hero, coming from outer space, it took a very difficult and complex story and put it into a simpler, kinder time.

In a lot of ways, the make-up was the character.