You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.

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

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.

I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards "How did they do that?"

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

A gem of a short film has a sense of pure joy in animation that is different from anything you see in a feature film.

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.