I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.

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

I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.

The closer you get to reality, the harder it is to make it look convincing to the audience. That's why I tend to make things [films] that are a little bit more caricature.

Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.

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.

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.