(And please, don’t call them my movies. They are in no way mine.)
"They gutted the book, making it an action movie for 15-25 year olds. And it seems that The Hobbit will be of the same ilk."
— Christopher Tolkien on The Lord of the Rings films directed by Peter Jackson
"I do not mean any disrespect to my colleagues who are working on this show. They are good people and talented artists. But this is some greedy, lazy executive-ing right here, and they ALL know full well [Stephen Hillenburg] would have HATED this. Shame on them."
— Paul Tibbitt, former showrunner of SpongeBob SquarePants on the announcement
of the spin-off Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years.
of the spin-off Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years.“For the new Netflix live-action adaptation, they sent me a video to review and check. It started with a scene in a casino, which made it very tough for me to continue. I stopped there and so only saw that opening scene. It was clearly not Cowboy Bebop and I realized at that point that if I wasn’t involved, it would not be Cowboy Bebop. I felt that maybe I should have done this. Although the value of the original anime is somehow far higher now.”
“Ratchet & Clank: Life of Pie is a standalone, licensed animated special created and distributed by Mainframe Studios. The show is not related to the upcoming Ratchet & Clank game for PlayStation 5 and is not official canon to the franchise’s video game narrative.”
