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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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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I'm a free agent. I want the major-label budget for my next album, but I'm too big for the label to pay me. I don't want to be controlled, to be watered-down. Labels were always asking me to do this or do that, saying that I was lacking something. And every time, I did it the next year. Singles? Radio spins? I showed 'em.
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If children are given some real content, they can feel powerful with their own understanding of it. I think a movie like 'Indian in the Cupboard' will instruct them how to proceed as people. They can think about whether they would have done something the way a character did, how they would have felt about an event in the story.
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American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.
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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.
