When you make a movie, it's just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it becomes something else.

I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.

I think it's really nice to have an authenticity, it's a huge source for us to be able to lean on people who have that knowledge.

You have hundreds of artists you're dealing with across the world and the scale of this movie [Kung Fu Panda] was insane - we had a parallel pipeline going on where you had two versions recording Mandarin voice actors, getting it to be funny for Mandarin audiences going beyond a straight translation, and then animating it and lighting it, it's a lot of work.

We went to a remote Panda Base which was insane because inside there were several cribs which held about twenty baby pandas. They were all different sizes and they were all lying there in a long row. It was so cute, I could hardly stand it. I wanted to take them all home with me.

When you make a movie, it's just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it becomes something else.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.