Cal Brunker is the director & co-writer of Escape From Planet Earth and the upcoming Paw Patrol: The Movie among several others. We talk about his life making animated films, not mythologizing the creative process or waiting on inspiration, focusing on individual strengths in a co-writing team and two very different opening weekends he’s lived.
“Being able to not mythologize the creative process is really helpful for younger people to be able to hear. It’s not that it’s a bolt from the blue and you get this amazing inspiration that this guy has and you don’t have that and if you just had the bolt then you could do it too but … and you’re like ‘It’s all bullshit. It’s not that at all. Here’s the real process.’ That would have been so helpful to me when I was young. I think it’s probably more available, that information now. Even when you listen to people talk about art, if you think about ‘high art’, you hear people talk about a painting, you’re like ‘This is mostly a con for the intelligentsia.’ The people making the art don’t talk about the art like that. It’s for a level of criticism and the circles of intelligentsia will discuss art in a certain way that’s very different than the people putting paint on the canvas.“
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CAL BRUNKER
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