A biography for Rob Minkoffhasn’t been written yet.
“We are learning in our global community that, yes, we are Americans but we are also citizens of a global community and we have a responsibility to that community and to be true to what those stories are.”
“When we make films - even 2D films - you're always trying to create this illusion of 3D, anyway. You're trying to create a believable world with characters walking, in and out of the perspective, to create the illusion that there's a world.”
“The reality of animation is that it's a complicated thing to get a movie to a studio to make, because they typically have a long line of projects on the runway, so getting the movie into that queue is a little bit difficult as well.”
“Personally, things really got under way for me when I eventually got to direct a couple of Roger Rabbit shorts and co-directed 'The Lion King.'”
“I do like animals.”
“Mr. Peabody was such a rich character, but he was unexplored. There was a lot they couldn't get to in a four and half minute short. It seemed like there was a bigger idea there.”
“I'm probably more suspicious of sequels.”
“You finish a film and you think, 'If I could just make the film again I could do a much better job.'”
“I mean, when you really look at it, Mr. Peabody and Sherman were the original 'Modern Family.'”
“What's unique about Disney Animation, many of the films have this perennial quality about them. They don't seem like old films, they still seem sort of fresh and relevant.”
“The desire and drive to create this illusion of three-dimensional space is something that is true about every kind of film because you want the audience to really be experiencing it, first hand.”
“In Asia, there aren't many characters as iconoclastic as the Monkey King. He's a trickster and contrarian character who works everywhere - kind of like a blue-collar hero. He's like an Asian Bugs Bunny.”
“The problem with a character like Mr. Peabody is - because he's supposed to be so smart - it's easy for a character like that to come across as being cold, above it all to an audience.”
“As an actor and singer, I loved to draw and I thought animation was a perfect combination of all those things.”
“Mr. Peabody is this genetic anomaly. He does have brothers and sisters, all of them non-speaking, not super-smart dogs. He's an outcast, but has overcome it by being so great at so many things.”
“Stuart Little will go down in history as the most expensive actor in motion pictures.”
“I always thought of history of being alive something about real people who were doing things that meant something, and it wasn't just data and facts in a book and dates. All that stuff can be boring unless you bring it to life and make it actually exciting.”
“In fact, if you look at the early Warner Brothers cartoons, you'll see the precedent for Roger Rabbit was really the earliest Daffy Duck and even the early Bugs Bunny.”
“It costs a lot more to create Stuart Little than to hire Jim Carrey.”