'The Little Mermaid' was a really great experience. Ron Clements More Quotes by Ron Clements More Quotes From Ron Clements [John Musker] got me reading the mythology and we very early on we worked up a basic storyline centered around the character of Maui. He just seemed like a great character to kind of build a movie around. He's this mythic demi-god, bigger than life character. He pulled up islands with his magical fishhook. He slowed down the sun. He's Pan Pacific. Ron Clements reading islands character I have basset hounds. I have four now, I've had more in the past, and I relate to them because physically we're similar, in that they have very short legs and kind of long torsos, and I do as well. Ron Clements legs long past It was really John's [Musker] idea to begin with to tell a story set in the world of the South Pacific, Polynesia. He started, he just loved the world and he started reading a lot of mythology, which most people are not that familiar with. Ron Clements reading people ideas There are stories of Maui everywhere in the South Pacific. They're different. Different areas have different interpretations. But and so we [with John Musker] fashioned, that was kind of the inspiration and we came up with a very simple basic storyline, focusing on Maui. Ron Clements different inspiration simple Taika [Waititi] came up... We kind of had and we sort of named this girl Moana, named after the ocean. And we had a very, a visual outline of the story. And we heard about Taika from people in the South Pacific that we talked to. Ron Clements girl ocean people We really wanted someone from the culture to sort of do that. And we heard about Taika [Waititi]. We saw his movie Boy, which that he had directed and written and which was great. We read another one of his scripts that was great. And we brought him in, showed him what we were doing. He really liked the idea. Ron Clements boys culture ideas There was nobody else who could be the genie and fortunately he agreed to do it, he had so much energy and so much passion. Ron Clements top-news When we were kids, I know when I saw 'Pinocchio' it had a huge impact. I was ten years old, and I went home, and I was drawing the characters. Ron Clements know impact drawing home It was actually after I saw 'Pinocchio' that I thought I might try and work in that industry in some way. Ron Clements thought try work way There's a process in the movie industry in both live action and animation called development hell! Ron Clements live hell development action
