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.

Animation is a technique, not a genre.

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

I think when you get people who are really talented and you take them out of their comfort zone, you get a lot more out of them.

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

Reading in a sound booth seems very strange. Everyone has a process they are comfortable with; this was uncomfortable for me.

I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.