In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era.

But Bennie knew that what he was bringing into the world was shit. Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh. Film, photography, music: dead. An aesthetic holocaust! Bennie knew better than to say this stuff aloud.

The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.

I guess my first digital movie was 'Tintin' because 'Tintin' has no film step. There is no intermediate film step. It's 100% digital animation, but as far as a live-action film, I'm still planning to shoot everything on film.

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

You can't live in the digital and die in the analog.