Anytime I Make A Movie,

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.

I Usually Set Aside A Lot Of Time In Advance Of A Movie With Important Roles For Kids To Search, But When You Have Great Ones, They Can Be A Real Ace In The Hole.

If Somebody Asks Me About The Themes Of Something I'm Working On, I Never Have Any Idea What The Themes Are. . . . Somebody Tells Me The Themes Later. I Sort Of Try To Avoid Developing Themes. I Want To Just Keep It A Little Bit More Abstract. But Then, What Ends Up Happening Is, They Say, 'well, I See A Lot Here That You Did Before, And It's Connected To This Other Movie You Did,' And . . . That Almost Seems Like Something I Don't Quite Choose. It Chooses Me.

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

I Just Want To Make Films That Are Personal, But Interesting To An Audience.