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.

A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.

We have those new environments [during Kung Fu Panda 3] that give a scale to the movie, that are the spirit realm and the panda village. The spirit realm, having no gravity, having this massive space, allowed us to do huge action shots. All that we just couldn't do before. We just couldn't get the scale, we'd have to cheat them. This time we found ourselves more free.

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.

We go for our own reality. I remember some of our guys saying it is way harder to make stylized art directed explosions of jade rather than a regular explosion of shrapnel.

Tigress is my alternate personality, especially with children. I love animation because you get to do things you don't normally get to.

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.