Sublime

About three hundred people work on each Pixar movie, and they are used to endless adjustments and changes being made while the story is finding its feet.

To have too much quantity changes quality itself. There are people who say the cartoons of yesteryear were better than those shown now. But what has actually happened is that in the past there were fewer cartoons broadcast, so they were simply more memorable.

In Heidi, we had started showing characters walking in different ways, with shortened steps, or with a quick pace, or in a way that seems to go on forever. But in most traditional cartoon movies, the characters reach the horizon in about three steps. For example, I love the cartoon character Farmer Alfalfa who practically comes bounding at us. It’s

Related to that, there was a film called The NeverEnding Story. It was somewhat changed from the original story. A dragon appears and has a very obvious face. You can tell what it is thinking from its face. This was totally uninteresting. For us something is far more likely to become an object of our longing when we don’t know what it is thinking.

We are now living in a society that is wealthy yet poverty-stricken. We are able to listen to large amounts of music and watch large numbers of videos. But only a small fraction of these move us.