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

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

Some Of The Ideas Are Kind Of Inspired By The Songs, And I Always Want To Use Music To Tell The Story And Give The Movie A Certain Kind Of Mood. That's Always Essential To Me.

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.