People Are Very Harsh Critics Of Animated

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.

It's Nice To Be Taken Seriously.

Every Kid Has A Toy That They Believe Is Their Best Friend, That They Believe Communicates With Them, And They Imagine It Being Alive, Their Toy Horse Or Car Or Whatever It Is. Stop-motion Is The Only Medium Where We Literally Can Make A Toy Come To Life, An Actual Object.

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.

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.