A lot of studios talk about a 12-to-1 ratio -- they come in with 12 ideas and one of them makes it, |
He was one of the major players (at Pixar), and we have yet to process what that will mean over time. |
It'll look even better now for somebody at home than it ever did for anybody seeing it for the first time in the theater. |
It's like trying to turn an aircraft carrier around. It takes a long time for things to stop, so we took advantage of working very fast and redid a large part of the picture. |
The big myth is that we want to make the best computer-animated movie in the world. And it's like, no. We want to make the best movie we can make. |
They could stop the money. |
We're not supervised. We're sort of allowed, like an independent filmmaker, to do what we want. You don't get that freedom anywhere else. And this is the only studio outside of Disney, when Walt Disney ran it, where an artist runs the whole place. Here, it's John Lasseter, and that trickles down. |
You end up using your own instincts. You end up having the guts to do what you should have done all along. After a while, we needed to give (the movie) back our voice. We went too far in listening to every single thing (Disney) told us to do. |