Guillermo del Torois calling for a rescue mission to save animation from corporate hoodlums.
“[Why] does everything act as if they’re in a sitcom?
I think it is emotional pornography.”

‘Pinocchio’ director Guillermo del Toro.NETFLIX
We have to rescue it.
“Well, my dad was boring.
Everybody in my family was boring.
We had no one-liners.
We’re all f—ed up.
That’s what I want to see animated.
I would love to see real life in animation.
I actually think it’s urgent.
I think it’s urgent to see real life in animation.”
“In animation, everyone is very efficient,” he told the Annecy audience.
“If they sit and grab a glass of water, they do it in four movements.
In real life, we do it in eight and we usually kind of f— it up.
So I said: Let’s make things inefficient.
I f—ing hate perfection.
I love things that look handmade.”
“After that, I only want to do animation.
That’s the plan.”
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