My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

To Kill a Mockingbird' represents Hollywood at its very finest, when a popular film could truly contain a message. It has one of the most moving scores of all time.

I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.

Lego was our fourth film, because we did two Cloudys, so yeah there's a little bit of shorthand that's involved and then you can anticipate things- because for me it's like, I get a script for a movie and I go, "Wow that's a pretty good script", then you sign on and a couple months later they show you the first cut and you're like, "Whoa, how did that happen?"

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.