Jonathan Freeman Quotes

All movies are inherently collaborative, and animation even more so. There are hundreds and hundreds of people involved with an animated movie.

'Shadow Hero' was a dream to work on.

Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.

When we did 'Toy Story,' that was an all-hands-on-deck situation that really was time-intensive.

Making a television show is a difficult, collaborative, creative endeavor, and it really requires everybody to band together and all work together every day.

I never take credit for my movie's success. I am the face of the movie, but there are numerous unsung heroes behind the scene. From the director, cameraman and editor to the light boy, everyone knows how difficult it is to satisfy the audience.

As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas.

Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with.

The director in TV and the writer and the creator are working very much hand in hand.

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

If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.

Working for Disney for the last eight and a half years, people come and go - production staff and actors. I stepped onto the sound stage and it was a literal time warp.

'The Simpsons' is an especially collaborative show.

I had always loved cartoons, especially 'Bugs Bunny,' and I found I enjoyed making animated films. Even a 30-second commercial involved drawing and painting, storytelling, not to mention actors, music, and sound effects.

I feel I'm just meant to do stop-motion. Live-action is much more glamorous to some, but it's basically a whole army of people focused on one thing.

First and foremost, I look for a great script. Then, the team that I am working with. Only then, we will be able to come up with a good film.

I'm writing a movie script about vampires with an animator called Michael Booth.

You have to understand that when you're a voice actor on an animated film, you're really just a tiny little piece of this huge process. And when you finally get to see the finished product and see all of the wonderful work that the animators & the designers & the writers did to make your character stand out, it's just so touching, so humbling.

Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.

Everybody involved in Pixar, I've not met one person who's not incredibly creative and nice and lovely and know what they're doing.

I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.

Part of debunking the mythology of filmmaking is that we tend to want to locate it often in one person. And it's not one person. It's a collective, and it is a collaboration.

It's great being an actor and being part of a play or a film where there's usually quite a big group of people who are collaborating, and your job is really to fit in and share that energy. With music, because I write the songs, it's a broader, more abstract process.

'Monsters of God' isn't just a series close to my heart; it is my heart, and I am very much looking forward to working with my fantastic team in New Mexico to create a top-notch series.

Every big-budget film is powered by a director's vision. I blindly follow the instructions of my director, believe in him, and deliver what he exactly wants from me.