I want to diagnose the audience a bit and then offer a cure.

I want to diagnose the audience a bit and then offer a cure.

I think audiences ultimately want something new. I think the business model for a franchise is such that it's very low risk because you have data and studios love data.

There's so much work in making movies, it's so easy to tear one down. When I watch a movie, even one that I don't particularly enjoy, I'm constantly impressed at the work that's in it. I respect the craftsmen and women. I tolerate a lot of movies that maybe other people don't, just because I know what goes into them.

Animated films are so precisely engineered - right down to forming lines of dialogue with words pulled from several different takes - how do you translate that spontaneity from the live-action to the digital realm?

I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear

Animation is a technique, not a genre.