Quotes by Don Bluth

“I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesnt go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is.”

“Shelf-life for a regular video game usually is about three to five years, and thats it.”

“In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually arent computer people, and the computer people usually arent the artistic people, so they always stand on opposite sides of the line.”

“When I think about how fat the studios have become, I laugh. You have 24 people in the layout department-were fat with personnel. All the rules and attitudes change in that kind of environment.”

“Its whatever sells; its the business of it.”

“Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so theyre not discerning about whether it looks great or its a great story or anything.”

“Im saddened to see that everyones pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it cant be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesnt mean that we cant listen to jazz.”

“It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesnt belong.”

“With movies, you are always in search is a good story, one that everyone will relate to and love. I love finding those stories and creating a visual world to tell the story.”

“I remember when we were doing the first Dragons Lair, I got really involved with coming up with all the little rooms and what was the danger in the room and going into it with bats and spiders and snakes.”

If you look at the game and everything, its not quite like looking at an animated film, because thats total character. This, this is really movement, but its got funny little things if you look for the humor. Theyre actually getting to the character.

If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then thats the best of both worlds - and Ill use those computers!

Im saddened to see that everyones pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it cant be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesnt mean that we cant listen to jazz.

With movies, you are always in search is a good story, one that everyone will relate to and love. I love finding those stories and creating a visual world to tell the story.

I have never seen a games graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners.