Sublime

For the past few years, I have put forth ideas for film projects with the following ethos: “To offer a sense of liberation to present-day young people who, in this suffocating, overprotective, and managed society, find their path to self-reliant independence blocked and have become neurotic.”

My new conclusion is therefore as follows: Mr. Bug Goes to Town is both wonderful and incredibly stupid. People say Dave Fleischer created it, but I would like to extend my heartfelt greetings and congratulations to the nameless staff members who managed to claw their way out of his control. (It’s okay if they only exist in my imagination.) I do wo

In a rare interview with the animator, Margaret Talbot described Miyazaki as a “workaholic,” and “detail oriented to the point of obsession.”

Of course, employees’ constant exposure to Jensen and his decision-making process included his public dressings-down of executives and PICs. He justified those potentially painful moments as

the product manager and designer must be there for each and every test.