People are always telling me that boys won't go to girls' movies and vice versa. It's not true.

I was influenced by Ray Harryhausen and Lotte Reiniger, with her twitchy, cutout animation, which I happened to see at a very young age, but also by the Warner Bros. cartoons, 'Tom and Jerry,' and of course Disney. And also by Fellini's 'Giulietta of the Spirits' and Kurosawa's 'Ran.' And by other American illustrators and painters.

If you're drawing humans, it can be detrimental to be too naturalistic, which is like animating little corpses.

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