Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are.
You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way.
Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.
If I had 10 ideas and people said yes to all of them, half of them could be crap. But, if I've got 10 ideas and we really only have the budget for one of them, then we have to pick the best one that is our most creative element.
One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work.
I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I'm running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can't reduce (the debt) any more
Even when you have a big budget, you can't just shoot everything.
I should have been born a crazy rich Asian because I do have expensive taste. I have champagne taste but I'm on a beer budget.
When you shoot a movie so quickly you can't really afford to shoot a bunch of extra footage because you don't have that luxury.
