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

‘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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