For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.

What made 'Ice Age' work is that it had its shiny candy coatings, but inside was a soft, creamy center.

I've been working in computer animation for 25 years. I'm obviously a devotee of the technology. I just think it's the one aspect of the medium that's going to continue to revolutionize the filmmaking. It's constantly changing and it's constantly opening up new possibilities. The technology is evolving where 2-D animation was ultimately limited by how long you could pay how many people to make a movie. I mean computers, not that it's in anyway a labor saving device, but it promises to open up exciting new technical possibilites.

You win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month. I had a lot of meetings.

I get a lot of credit for Tron. They called us scene choreographers back then because the animation unit wouldn't let us be called animators because we were working on computers. And we were some of the first people ever to make 3-D computer animation.

For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.

I think I probably am doing animation because I started as a kid and I learned on my own, and I worked by myself a lot. It's the only thing I really prepared myself to do in any kind of depth. And I've just kind of imbibed the technology and techniques and the thinking about telling stories this way. It just feels natural to me.