Zootopia mag je gerust de grootste verassing van 2016 noemen, en deed het heel erg goed bij het bioscoop gaande publiek. De webiste Collider had een interview met de directors Byron Howard & Rich Moore en daar van kan je hier onder alvast een klein stukje lezen.

Collider: This film was a monster success. It was the best animated film this year, and it's one of the best films of the year, in general. In your wildest dreams, prior to release, what was the worldwide box office you were hoping to get to versus what it actually turned out to be?

RICH MOORE: I don't know. Not this. This is a boon. This is just, "Oh, my god!" To me, I just take it as people loved the characters and the world. As an artist, it feels good that we've created something that is connecting with the audience, which is what we always strive to do. The box office numbers just helps for down the line for our studio, or if there's other adventures in this world. I'm just blown away by it. I'm still trying to process it.

BYRON HOWARD: It's such a huge number. When you hear that it's getting close to a billion, it just means that a lot of people saw the movie. If I say that I was one of the directors on Zootopia, people know it. They say, "Oh, I saw that!" I can talk to a lot of people in public, and they or someone in their family has seen it. It was this weird word that we made up that now is a thing that exists, from now on. People understand what it is and they understand the idea behind it. It's a place that didn't exist before, and now it exists. The fact that it was a cooperative creative process between us and our great crew, we're so lucky to be here, at this time. The people around us are at the top of their craft, and we benefit from that. Their artistry just pours into the film and they care so much about it. Every film is just so good. Hopefully, we're doing our job to give them good stories to tell. It's great. Even the fact that Rich and I are on social media, people write to us and say, "I've seen the movie," and it's three times or five times or 10 times.