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

How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?

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.

The heart of Dragon's Lair has always been its compelling story. With Dragon's Lair 3D, we think the team has really created an interactive animated movie.

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

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

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.