I feel like Court Yard Hounds keeps us idling. I think Emily and I function better when we're continually making music and playing, and this is a way to keep doing that.
In Hollywood, 'under development' means 'all I have is the title.'
I probably hung on for a couple of years too long on 'Scary Go Round.' I knew I had lost some of my enthusiasm for the characters and the setup, but I wasn't sure what to do next.
I've had the new band experience plenty of times, and sometimes, it just sort of peters out.
It's always once the script's done in the first two years if it doesn't get going somehow or another, I've never had an old script that someone's made later on.
There's a process in the movie industry in both live action and animation called development hell!
For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.
I think if you look at the Singapore projects, we wanted to do industrial parks. They have taken very long to clear the issues of land, and these become politicised, and you can't settle it, and eventually the project languishes and nothing happens.
I've seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it's a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can't make it.
It causes havoc on set anytime a director wants to go backward rather than forward.
One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.
Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens.
I've seen animation features just languish until the right combination of things come along to keep it alive.
