Pixar is filled with people who don't get rid of their toys.
In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.
I just didn't realize the unbelievable impact Disney films had on American society until my assistant coached me on the stories and brought me up to speed.
There's something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that's just very exciting. That's why with 'Nightmare' I held out for so long to do it.
The Walt Disney Animation studio is the studio that Walt Disney started himself in 1923, and it's never stopped and never closed its doors and never stopped making animation, and it keeps going as kind of the heart and soul of the company.
Just like those little Viewmaster slides, there's a inherent magic that's captured in 3D that you can't get in drawn animation or in CG.
It's a strange business, and unfortunately, what we do in animation is a mystery, especially the directors.
Even in China. Children there, next to the Great Wall, who had never seen Mickey Mouse responded. So the studio did have that skill to communicate with images.
This is a Disney animated feature; it's eternal, it's history. What's there to think about'
