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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.