Pixar's Pete Docter and Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki Disagree on the Value of Test Screenings
Following the premiere of Inside Out 2, which has performed well both domestically and overseas, Docter discussed many different elements of the creation process, including test screenings, which are used to gauge how audiences react to certain elements or scenes. When Docter asked Miyazaki if Ghibli holds test screenings for its films, Miyazaki stated that it does not. "No, it is impossible for all viewers to understand a film," he explains. "We are the ones who take responsibility, so we can't leave it to someone who happens to be there."
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Miyazaki must die on the inside each time he hears about this stuff
I can't even imagine. After a long life of making wonderful things, getting prodded by phillistines this way every time you leave the house.
The difference between an artist and a soulless art salesman
Hayao is a goat standing on top of a mountain made from a series of ever slightly larger goats. The Hayao goat mountain has no discernable base.
I like to imagine the goat mountain sits atop the back of a single, giant, goat. And that goats name? Is John Darnielle