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.

Animation has always been about technology. You can't have animation without technology.

I remember feeling that technology was like trying to draw with your foot. In a ski boot. It was the most indirect way to work imaginable, but the potential had us all excited. I started in stop motion.

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.

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

Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script. They also gave us a mandate to make it into a comedy from what was previously a rather dramatic action concept.