If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology.

If you can think about it, you can create it.

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts

The spy genre is something I loved.It also extends to the bad guy because I think, to me, what I love the most about the spy genre is when you have a great bad guy. What makes a great bad guy, to me, is the logic. What he's about has to make sense to me, that if I was in his shoes, yeah, right, that makes sense.

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

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