I feel like, if you watch the movie, you can really tell that the people involved
said yes to a lot of things.
Like, there weren't a lot of noes in that room, you know, like-,
I loved it, though. I loved
it. I'd just like to start. Loved the film, thought it was amazing.
Oh, cool.
It really, really resonates with me, as a young person. I thought that was
brilliant.
I just wanna say, your work on Gravity Falls and, obviously, this film as well,
shows you're quite passionate about animation as a genre.
I am very passionate about it.
Yeah. And I just wanted to ask, like, do you think, like, deeply human stories can
be accurately told through animated characters, like, generally?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah?
Absolutely. I mean, I think-, I think it's like, in a way, you can-, one of the
things that I'm-, we're sort of, kind of, poking at with the movie is, like, I
think, in a way, you could kind of tell a deeper and, and, and more visceral stories
about humans through animation, by allowing the audience to feel what it's
like to be in those experiences and not just see what it's like.
I'm sort of a weirdo. My parents haven't figured me out yet. To be fair, it took me
a while to figure myself out. My brother, also weird. Hi, would you like to talk to
me about dinosaurs? No? Okay, thank you. And my mum. Katie-faced cupcakes.
Katie-faced cupcakes. All of us, really. How about we put our phones down and we
can make ten seconds of unobstructed family eye contact? Starting now.
See, this is good, right here. This is natural.
The Mitchell family are very 'winging it'. Winging it is the way to go.
Yeah.
The whole ethos of winging it. And I was just-, do you think, like, creative ideas,
sometimes the best ones, are actually born from that 'let's improve it, let's just
throw-,' Yes.
You know? Whatever. 'Let's just do it.' You know?
No, totally. I mean, it-, you know-, I feel like, if you watch the movie, you can
really tell that the people involved said yes to a lot of things. Like, there
weren't a lot of noes in that room, you know?
I loved it, though. I loved it. It worked out-, worked out brilliantly.
We, we were all really excited, and that was-, that's one of the coolest things
about working-, because, like, the team on the movie is, like, this stacked group of
geniuses and I think they're all gonna, like, go on to be the best in, in the
world.
Attention all robots. Capture every single person on the planet. Get down. What would
a functional family do?
Butterfly formation.
Hi-ya.
So, we just do that, right?
What-, it's so cool to have somebody come in with an idea and be like, you know,
like, 'What if, you know, like'-, you know, like, or the editor said-, like,
pitching a joke, and you're like, 'That's hilarious. Throw it in,' or, or-, you
know, one of the storyboard artists is like-, you know, a bunch of the-, a bunch
of the great jokes in the movie are just, like, our Head of Story, Guillermo
Martinez, being like, 'What about this?' and us losing our minds in the room and
like, 'Put it in.' It's like that Gremlin skit. It's in the movie. It's just-,
'let's do it. Let's just do it.'
I, I-, yeah. I think, sometimes, the best jokes are just off-the-cuff, though. I
mean, it-, that's, that's just how comedy work, I think, most of the time.
Yeah. We, we, we, we-, it's funny, because a lot of them either came from the actors,
like Abbi Jacobson, and Danny McBride and Maya Rudolph, just coming up with things
in the room and cracking us up and just, like, directly putting it in the movie.
Or, you know, us at the microphone, you know, at 2:30 in the morning, like, 'Is
this funny?' You know?
And then, like, the one thing that makes us all laugh is the thing that actually
gets in.
The Mitchells have always been weird and that's what makes us great. Hold on a
second. What's a Furby?
Why would someone build that?
Run.
I just wanted to ask, because it resonated so well with me as a young person, I think
a lot of people have the issue of your parents are pushing down and saying, 'Hey,
this, this career is not, not where you wanna go.'
Yeah.
Like, 'This is a bad thing.' What advice would you give to people in that
situation, that are around my age, kind of, going into life, you know?
Yeah. I mean-, I mean, I-, I think-, I think, like, you gotta do it, man. You
got-, Like, whatever the thing-, whatever the song you have to sing in your heart
is, like, if you don't do it, you're always gonna look back and be like, 'What?
I-, I should've done it.' If you try and fail, you can be like, 'Well, you know
what? I gave it my all. Didn't work out. Whatever.' I always try to, like,
hinge things from, like, 'Okay, on my deathbed, what am I gonna be worried
about?' You know? Like-,
Yeah.
And I-, that you-, you, you try to-, you know, that was the whole-, me going into
animation and me making this movie was like-, I was like, 'I'm scared and I don't
think I can do this, but I gotta try.' And, and it was like, you know-, and, and
it worked out, luckily. But, but it's-, but I do think that, if you don't try,
you're always gonna be wondering.
Yeah, definitely. Aim for the stars, hit the treetops. Well, thank you so much. I
loved the film, again. It was amazing to talk to you.
Thanks, man. And thank you for the advice.
Yeah. I will-,
That's cool. That's cool, I think.
Spread the-, spread the word. Yeah, yeah.
Thank you so much.
Hey, watch it on as many devices as you can.
I can. I can. I've spread it around. Everybody's gonna watch it. It's okay.
It's-, all my channels are gonna watch it.
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Cut it out. Cut it, quick. Cut it.