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.

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

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

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts

I think the painted backgrounds in animations are absolutely stunningly beautiful. There's something really special about this medium. I don't believe audiences have grown past it. I think what audiences love is to be entertained-thoroughly, deeply entertained, and that's what I've always set out to do.

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.