We want to be proud of our work and make sure it's worth the talent of the animators, who spent four years of their love, sweat and tears on it.

You have to make sure that people are still motivated and happy and creatively challenged so that it can all be stitched together. The voice acting starts after a lot of the storyboards are done.

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.

Lots of people support me and I forget. But sometimes things happen and I remember, and they say I encourage them, it makes me feel very happy.

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

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.

Po's [Kung Fu Panda] unending enthusiasm is something we wish we could have. We can't help but root for him because of his geek energy.