I'm Not A Public Enough Persona To

I Love The Culture Of Animation. What Stop-motion Has In Common With Live-action Is That It Has Many Of The Same Departments. There's Hair, Costume, Makeup In The Form Of Paint, Gaffers, Electricians. So There's The Same Sense Of Real Stuff, Real Light. But It's Not Like Everything Happens At Once, Like It Does In Live-action. It's All Subdivided Into These Small Sets. It's Where My Strengths Are. Live-action Is Just An Utterly Different World, And I'm Not A Public Enough Persona To Be Big And Loud At The Front Of The Ship. I'd Rather More Quietly Interact With The Artisan Animators.

Anyone Can Buy Cg Technology. It's Not That It's Easy To Make Those Films. Those Films Are Just As Difficult, They're Incredibly Hard To Make.

I Have More Faith In Doing Something Creative For A Cable Station Or Something Like Yahoo Or Google Or Amazon. What Netflix Did With 'house Of Cards' And David Fincher Was Brilliant. That Is Inspiring To Me. I Think There Is More Chance For Creativity In Animation, It Just Hasn't Happened There Yet.

'coraline' Is Neil Gaiman's Book, It Sold A Lot, It Has A Big Fan Base. It Was Originally Conceived To Be Live Action, But I Never Really Wanted It To Be. I Always Thought That It Would Work Better As An Animated Film.

Almost Any Modern Video Camera Can Take Stills, So There's Always This Fresh Crop Of Kids That Like Making Things And Moving Them By Hand. So It's As Much Our Desire To Keep It Going As What We Believe Is The Public's Desire For Handmade Stuff That Really Feels Handmade, Where They Aren't Being Tricked Into It Being Handmade.