Mike Mitchell Quotes
A big part of directing animation is deciding what you really want to do and making sure it's about something. My favorite thing about animation is the storytelling. You can really dig into the story and spend time with the writers. The writers don't just write and leave.
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I learn something in the interviews from time to time.
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A lot of our animation projects are co-productions with French production companies.
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What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.
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I'm either enjoying myself or I'm not. And if I'm not enjoying myself, something's gone terribly wrong.
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I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.
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Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.
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I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time.
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While I deeply admire actors who deeply prepare, it's just not something I do.
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Every religion there's something foul going on.
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I'd rather be doing something than not doing something.
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It's all about racing on the track.
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When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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The comics I made from 1990 to 1997 were largely based in vaguely urban, vaguely dystopic settings because that was my reference point for comics storytelling in general.
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It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
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I had to be sure we were doing something tasteful.
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I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?
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I blog because I have something to say.
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I come from a family in which public service was something to aspire to.
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To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.
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What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious courage which Robert Shaw showed when he marched with you, men of the Seventh Regiment. It is that more lonely courage which he showed when he dropped his warm commission in the glorious Second to head your dubious fortunes, negroes of the Fifty-fourth. That lonely kind of courage (civic courage as we call it in times of peace) is the kind of valor to which the monuments of nations should most of all be reared.
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A big part of directing animation is deciding what you really want to do and making sure it's about something. My favorite thing about animation is the storytelling. You can really dig into the story and spend time with the writers. The writers don't just write and leave.
