For whatever reason, I think we have one type of animated movie and it's so wrong. I want to do a drama, I want to do an action, a comedy. In live-action, there are all sorts of movies. There's independent movies, big movies, action movies, funny movies, and for us we have one movie.
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'Samurai' is not an animated show like you would normally watch on TV. We tell the stories from a different perspective - backward, very nonlinear. It treats it more seriously as an art form.
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I try not to be in my head too much, I just try to do what feels right.
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I've always thought that maybe I need to do a live-action movie, have it make a lot of money, and then come back and have a bigger budget for animation and do more with that.
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Jazz flute's funny. And I'm a big Latin music fan, Tito Puente, Tina Cruz, all that stuff.
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Jim Gaffigan is someone I've always been a fan of.
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For me, animation is the caricature of life. It's something that we create, from the ground up.
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Trying to be a leader, you've got to be really sure of what you're doing and you've got to guide people the right way.
