Rob Minkoff Quotes

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Rob Minkoff

Profession : Director

Birth : August 11, 1962

When we did 'Lion King' it was all drawn and now we use computers to do the work.

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Some people might look askance at a dog driving a scooter. But not everybody.

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The reality of animation is that it's a complicated thing to get a movie to a studio to make, because they typically have a long line of projects on the runway, so getting the movie into that queue is a little bit difficult as well.

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Mr. Peabody is this genetic anomaly. He does have brothers and sisters, all of them non-speaking, not super-smart dogs. He's an outcast, but has overcome it by being so great at so many things.

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A big part of filmmaking, and a big part of the power of filmmaking, is creating characters that people fall in love with.

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I think all of the people in animation during that period in the '80s were big fans of the earlier Disney classics and wanted to make the modern films reach those same heights - and the only way to do it, we all knew, was to push the boundaries of what seemed acceptable.

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I think Disney villains can be the most interesting characters in the films, and so you want to create something that's larger than life - something that really has a lot of personality.

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I had the great good fortune to have Chuck Jones as a mentor and one of my first questions to him, was who did they make Bugs Bunny for? They never made the shows for kids. They made them to amuse themselves.

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Mr. Peabody was such a rich character, but he was unexplored. There was a lot they couldn't get to in a four and half minute short. It seemed like there was a bigger idea there.

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I do like animals.

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When I was little, I really loved movies and I also did a lot of performing.

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As an actor and singer, I loved to draw and I thought animation was a perfect combination of all those things.

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I don't think I have ever made a movie that is autobiographical, but you can't help but use experiences in your life in the movies that you make.

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You finish a film and you think, 'If I could just make the film again I could do a much better job.'

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I'm probably more suspicious of sequels.

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In fact, if you look at the early Warner Brothers cartoons, you'll see the precedent for Roger Rabbit was really the earliest Daffy Duck and even the early Bugs Bunny.

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I always thought of history of being alive something about real people who were doing things that meant something, and it wasn't just data and facts in a book and dates. All that stuff can be boring unless you bring it to life and make it actually exciting.

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I'm breaking all the rules directing a picture with animals, kids - and talking mice!

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If you're in the movies and you haven't been to Beijing, you're kind of missing where things are really happening.

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When you work in animation, everyone starts on the bottom rung. You don't even draw your own pictures, you just fill in the movements in between the drawings of more experienced animators. There's never any question of anyone in animation not having paid their dues.

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