Shinichiro Watanabe Quotes

There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.

In my opinion, animation will continue to thrive as long as there are children, parents, television, movies and the need to laugh.

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it.

When Walt Disney was making his films, he trusted his instincts and made films for himself, but they appealed to everybody, not just kids.

Humour is ahead of everything creatively. I think if things aren't humorous, they are just crap.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good.

Let's make some funny pictures.

I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.

From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.

Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.

Every time I write a new book, I want to push myself to try something different.

You have to think of a new way to make something new. And the biggest sin - you can never try too hard. You can never look like you're just trying to shock people, 'cause that's simple. But making people laugh is the hard part.

I just try to keep it fresh without sacrificing funny.

Since I was a kid, I've always been obsessed with animation.

When I was a kid, I saw 'Heavy Metal' the movie, and my mind was blown. I loved the idea that you could have all these different stories in different styles that are linked together.

We like to try doing new things in the shows and doing things that we haven't done before.

It's so difficult to actually come up with ideas that you really fall in love with, you know? That's the most difficult thing about filmmaking - and that's my main challenge in life.

When Wes has a new a project, you know that it's going to be something as different as the previous was from the previous one. Each time, he tries to take you to a country, or a land that is unknown for you and for him, and reinvent this land. That's what he did with 'Darjeeling,' with 'Mr. Fox,' with 'Moonrise Kingdom.'

I have to challenge myself, and I have to challenge the reader. We should be weaving and working on new stories and not the same story over and over.

I'm very creative, intuitive - I like to entertain.

The only responsibility I feel is to deliver something that's new or at least to attempt that. The real responsibility is to entertain and to try and make people laugh.