I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.

Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.

It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.

I always loved the idea of a spy movie and part of it came from my personal love of spy movies. It started when I was growing up as a little kid in the 60s.

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.

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.

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