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.

Slice open one of my veins and cartoons will pour out; open another vein and you'll get a flood of motor oil.

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.

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.

You make a movie to entertain audiences. That's why you make a movie. The product sales is because people love the characters, and to me, that is a testament to how our movie has become so ingrained in family's homes all around the world and that's why I make movies.

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

People have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm.