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" I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesn't mean that we can't listen to jazz. "

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" When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry. "

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" Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks great or it's a great story or anything. "

" But I've been surprised over the years. I mean, someone told me the other day that maybe 360 million people have played this game in the world. That's a lot of people. "

" You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way. "

" It's whatever sells; it's the business of it. "

" The studios will go wherever they smell money. It's like sharks to the blood. "

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" The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it. "

" I think the work that they do and the style of 3D graphics is absolutely fabulous and I think it's a great brush to use for some stories. And there are other brushes that I think are exclusive to a different kind of story. "

" I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is. "

" I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was the enthusiasm to make a sequel? "

" Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them - the cost has gone up. The picture may or may not get better, but definitely, it gets more cumbersome. "

" In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren't computer people, and the computer people usually aren't the artistic people, so they always stand on opposite sides of the line. "

" Shelf-life for a regular video game usually is about three to five years, and that's it. "

" We'd love to do Space Ace 3D. It has a lot of potential. But, it is really up to the publishers. "

" There's about 260 rooms in the new castle which you go through, but it's all about the game play. "

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Castle

Game

" We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will. "

" I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners. "

" If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an animated film, because that's total character. This, this is really movement, but it's got funny little things if you look for the humor. They're actually getting to the character. "

" The only one that seems to be able to hold the business is Disney. They do it is because they have a fabulous philosophy about marketing- but even they wavered. "

" You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business. "

" As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director's job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction. "

" It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong. "

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Just

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" If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers! "

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Drawing

Leave

" I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in. "

" We started getting the script to different people and we were in the business of trying to fund it so we could get it off and running, and all the characters and sets designed and everything. "

" Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all. "

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You

Own