oh, okay. i didn't intend to call the quality of his work into question, just to say that quality and profitability don't necessarily have much to do with each other.
A lot of shitty, shitty movies are enormously successful financially. A lot of shitty movies bomb.
Likewise a lot of great movies hit it big, and many don't.
Spirited Away got crazy hype as a result of the oscar nomination but that only got some people, not loads and certainly not Pixar numbers, out to see the movie.