A Gem Of A Short Film Has

I Have This Saying. Quality Is The Best Business Plan. I Believe So Strongly In That.

I Love The Villains Who Are Really Hyper-smart. When At The End Of The Movie You Find Out What They Were About, And It Makes Absolutely Perfect Sense From Their Point Of View.

A Gem Of A Short Film Has A Sense Of Pure Joy In Animation That Is Different From Anything You See In A Feature Film.

It [moviemaking] Is About Entertaining Audiences With Great Characters And Great Stories, You Want To Make People Laugh, You Want To Make People Cry, You Want To Have Great Music That Is Memorable. You Want A Movie That, As Soon As It's Over, You Want To Watch It Again, Just Like That. That's What It Is, Whether It's Live-action, Animation, Hand Drawn, Computer, Special Effects, Puppet Animation, It Doesn't Matter. That's The Goal Of A Filmmaker.

You Have To Do Three Things Really Well To Make A Successful Film. You Have To Tell A Compelling Story That Has A Story That Is Unpredictable, That Keeps People On The Edge Of Their Seat Where They Can't Wait To See What Happens Next. You Then Populate That Story With Really Memorable And Appealing Characters. And Then, You Put That Story And Those Characters In A Believable World, Not Realistic But Believable For The Story That You're Telling.