Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

There's always one sequence in every animated film that's the bane of every animator's existence.

I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.

I was that kind of kid that was going to the movies every weekend, I couldnt get enough of the movies, and now I get to make them. So I kind of have a one-track mind.

In storytelling, the audience actually wants to work for their meal, they just don't want to know that they're doing it.

We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts. They're used quite often, consciously or unconsciously, to avoid living, to avoid doing the messy part of having relationships with other people, of dealing with a person next to us. That's why we can all be in a room on our cell phones and not have to deal with one another.

Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.