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

A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences.

I've always loved animation it's the reason why I do what I do for a living - the films of Walt Disney. This art form is so spectacular and beautiful. And I never quite understood the feeling amongst animation studios that audiences today only wanted to see computer animation. It's never about the medium that a film is made in, it's about the story. It's about how good the movie is.

Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it.

I just devoured all of his [Buster Keaton’s] films because his sense of comic timing was amazing. He’s the closest a human being has ever come to a cartoon character. And I was just amazed at his sense of character and timing, the humor. It's all just so…sophisticated, even when you watch it today.

When you make these films, they become like your children. But at a certain point, they don’t belong to you anymore; they belong to the world.

I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards "How did they do that?"