Quote:
"[Wendy Tilby and I] happened to be in Halifax more than 20 years ago and went to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, where there was a display about the explosion and this tiny paragraph about a sailor who was sent two kilometres in the air by the explosion, landing without his clothes. We were both struck by that, and wondered what the trip would look like. For one reason or another, we had to put it aside for a long time, but it stuck there."
-- Amanda Forbis

Source:
Hertz, Barry. "'It's a pretty good track record': Meet the Canadian animators who secure Oscar nominations time and again." Interview with Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby. Globe and Mail, January 24, 2023.