“Telling that amount of history in a live action film is nearly impossible.
Showing how a person feels from inside, how depression works from inside, is also nearly impossible in live action. Do you remember that film ‘A Beautiful Mind’ about the mathematician who went crazy? To depict his state of mind, they used blurry spinning images. This is all the language you have in live action.
In animation it’s different; you can just walk into a person’s mind and you can show everything going on in there. In animation you’re free to do anything you want. And what really bums me out is that animation is misunderstood as a medium for children; this makes me really upset. Animation has been around for ages, it was the first moving images. Then sometime around the 1920s, it was hijacked by children.” (Signe Baumane – read full interview here)