What I personally gravitate toward tends to be fantasy, medium dark - not too dark - fairy tales and sci fi. Stop-motion takes something on the page that's really dark and adds a little sweetness to it, a living toys realm.

Miyazaki’s films in Japan are bigger than Titanic. He’s an incredible rock star there. In the US, they don’t do as well.

It’s nice to be taken seriously.

I have more faith in doing something creative for a cable station or something like Yahoo or Google or Amazon. What Netflix did with ‘House of Cards’ and David Fincher was brilliant. That is inspiring to me. I think there is more chance for creativity in animation, it just hasn’t happened there yet.

I’m looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I’m not dark, not compared with ‘Saw’ or anything like that. So I’m looking at live-action horror films, but not slasher ones – ones that have humor and maybe some social satire.

Anyone can buy CG technology. It’s not that it’s easy to make those films. Those films are just as difficult, they’re incredibly hard to make.

There’s very few people who want to just make beautiful films that make money when they can make films that make huge money.

There’s definitely the desire out there for young people who want to make the movies.

I feel I’m just meant to do stop-motion. Live-action is much more glamorous to some, but it’s basically a whole army of people focused on one thing.

There’s always kids who become stop motion animators. I get stuff all the time. They put it on YouTube. It’s exciting to see.