It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong.
I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is.
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.
Disney knows that they're in a formulaic rut, and they're trying very hard, I think, to find something that's different. They've got so much money, they can throw it at anything.
In the corporate structure, you get people who are highly competitive with each other... Trying to get more money and more prestige.