Honestly, every person, every individual has a process, and my philosophy, whether it's an actor or an animator, is you try to understand the process that person has so you can get the most out of them, but I think you have to sort of manipulate that process with honesty.

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?

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 find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear

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 think that's really the kind of exponential factor in being in a punk-rock band or making music videos and movies -pirates and rock 'n' roll go hand in hand. There is a `question authority,' `don't be afraid to break the rules' quality that whether you're a 4-year-old bouncing on your bed as your parents are trying to stop it or an adult longing for that feeling, there's something inside all of us that piracy speaks to. I'm going to do what I want to do and I don't care what you think.

All the traditional westerns are about choice and the individual. When progress comes it's much more difficult to define the individual in that world.