When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.

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

Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.

Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

It [moviemaking] is about entertaining audiences with great characters and great stories, you want to make people laugh, you want to make people cry, you want to have great music that is memorable. You want a movie that, as soon as it's over, you want to watch it again, just like that. That's what it is, whether it's live-action, animation, hand drawn, computer, special effects, puppet animation, it doesn't matter. That's the goal of a filmmaker.

When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.

In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more computer memory you need.