We started getting the script to different people and we were in the business of trying to fund it so we could get it off and running, and all the characters and sets designed and everything.
Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them - the cost has gone up. The picture may or may not get better, but definitely, it gets more cumbersome.
All the painting on the cels was farmed out to women all over the city of Los Angeles. They took it into their kitchens and painted it.
In the corporate structure, you get people who are highly competitive with each other... Trying to get more money and more prestige.
I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesn't mean that we can't listen to jazz.
The studios are not hiring right now, and they're beginning to have second thoughts about what they're producing. Even Dreamworks.