Watership Down

“When we got a video recorder in our House, the first rental I made was Watership Down and Death Race 2000., when there was no control over what you could get from video shops at that point at whatever age., Watership Down didn't work., but Death Race 2000 did work. And I think that's probably, sums up my whole career really. Thank you.”

“One of my favorite animated films of all time, Watership Down. I first saw Watership Down it aired on television when I was a little kid and it kind of terrified me when I first saw the film and I loved that about it. I never saw animation as something for kids. I always just thought of animation as an incredible medium for a certain kind of storytelling. It's a lot of that philosophy that brought me to Pixar and was something that we always kept in mind when we were making the movie Soul.”

“Watership Down, which I'm very pleased that Criterion released. Have you ever seen Watership Down? Oh yeah. Existential agony of life played by rabbits. Yeah, all right. Can't beat it.”

“Watership Down I’m only bringing up because it is truly– I think this is the scariest moviegoing experience of my life. My Mother took me to see this movie when it came out. My mom thought it was an animated rabbit movie. And, guys, it is technically that. If you’ve got a five-year-old who loves rabbits and also Dreams of just blood running through fields, run, don’t walk to Watership Down.”