I think you can never ever lie, ever. If you don't know, say, 'I don't know'.

For me, some of the happiest moments on a live-action film are the awkward moments. One actor says something to another actor. They didn't expect that performance from that actor; that affects their return performance.

There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell a story.

I want to diagnose the audience a bit and then offer a cure.

My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.

I just watched so many Westerns as a kid that you end up using archetypes and sort of tropes of that genre, because there's a language there and you can twist it and turn it on its head or play to it or go sideways at any time.

Animated films are so precisely engineered - right down to forming lines of dialogue with words pulled from several different takes - how do you translate that spontaneity from the live-action to the digital realm?