I love the villains who are really hyper-smart. When at the end of the movie you find out what they were about, and it makes absolutely perfect sense from their point of view.

I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.

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

The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them ok, be sad now. Humor, you can add. Even to the last minute you can be adding little bits of humor. But the true earned emotion is something that you really have to craft.

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

One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.

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.