There’s never a wrong idea. You just keep throwing stuff out and inevitably there are elements of different things that inspire a character or environment.

People have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm.

I'm the biggest fan of animation. I love the history of animation, I know it well.

Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.

I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.

Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.

Slice open one of my veins and cartoons will pour out; open another vein and you'll get a flood of motor oil.