I think that the entertainment industry and the entertainment press tends to focus on opening weekend box office as a measure of the success of a film and I think the true success is out there in people's homes and how much they absolutely love these characters.

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.

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

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.

I've got Disney blood running through my veins.