Don Bluth Quotes

Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all.

The studios will go wherever they smell money. It's like sharks to the blood.

We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will.

We'd love to do Space Ace 3D. It has a lot of potential. But, it is really up to the publishers.

You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way.

If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!

How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?

There's about 260 rooms in the new castle which you go through, but it's all about the game play.

It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong.

When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.

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.

The heart of Dragon's Lair has always been its compelling story. With Dragon's Lair 3D, we think the team has really created an interactive animated movie.

You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.

The only one that seems to be able to hold the business is Disney. They do it is because they have a fabulous philosophy about marketing- but even they wavered.

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.

Dragon's Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film.

But I've been surprised over the years. I mean, someone told me the other day that maybe 360 million people have played this game in the world. That's a lot of people.

I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was the enthusiasm to make a sequel?

Shelf-life for a regular video game usually is about three to five years, and that's it.

Reese Witherspoon. She's sophisticated enough that you just like her. You like her and she's smart.

It's whatever sells; it's the business of it.

I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.

Usually with things, you go where you can find the financing to do it.

Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks great or it's a great story or anything.