Animating Is A Very Slow,

Usually When I'm Making A Movie, What I Have In Mind First, For The Visuals, Is How We Can Stage The Scenes To Bring Them More To Life In The Most Interesting Way, And Then How We Can Make A World For The Story That The Audience Hasn't Quite Been In Before.

Working With Kids Is Usually Very Fun. They Get So Into Movie And They're Up For Anything. Usually They're Having Such An Exciting Experience, Everybody Feels That.

Animating Is A Very Slow, Pain-staking Process And The Animators Become The Actors At That Point.

The Animators Bring Their Own Spontaneity To It As Well, Because When They Do A Take Of A Shot It Really Is Like Just One Continuous Activity For Them. They Launch Into It And Do It, And They're Not Even Quite Sure How It's Going To Turn Out When They're Doing It. They're Sort-of Sculpting Their Way Through A Scene And Trying To Make This Inanimate Object Alive.

I Just Now Put [robert Altman] Down Feeling Heartbroken But Happily And Deeply Inspired. . . . Wonderful.