The Whole Point Of Making A Film

Animation Requires A Great Deal Of Concentration, And I Preferred To Work Alone Because Then I'm Not Deterred By Somebody Asking Me If I Want Coffee, Or The Phone Ringing Or Something.

Medusa Was Fascinating To Work With Because I Gave Her A Snake's Body So That She Could Pull Herself With Her Hands Which Gave Her A Very Creepy Aura. I Didn't Want To Animate Cosmic Gowns. Most Medusas You See In The Classics Have Flowing Robes Which Would Be Mad To Even Try To Animate.

There’s A Strange Quality In Stop-motion Photography, Like In King Kong, That Adds To The Fantasy. If You Make Things Too Real, Sometimes You Bring It Down To The Mundane.

With All The Hype That Computer Graphics Has Been Getting, Everybody Thinks There's Nothing Better Than Cgi, But I Do Get A Lot Of Fan Mail Saying They Prefer Our Films To Anything With Cgi In It. I'm Grateful For That, And We Made Them On Tight Budgets, So They Were Considered B-pictures Because Of That. And, Now Here We Are, And They've Outlasted Many So-called A-pictures.

I Know Pretty Well In The Broad Sense What I'm Going To Do, Because I Have To Know That When We Shoot The Live-action, So That It'll Synchronize. Then I Know Pretty Well When I Get To The Animation Stage, What That Scene Requires.