I just devoured all of his [Buster Keaton’s] films because his sense of comic timing was amazing. He’s the closest a human being has ever come to a cartoon character. And I was just amazed at his sense of character and timing, the humor. It's all just so…sophisticated, even when you watch it today.

You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with genius ideas out of nowhere. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

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

Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

You have to do three things really well to make a successful film. You have to tell a compelling story that has a story that is unpredictable, that keeps people on the edge of their seat where they can't wait to see what happens next. You then populate that story with really memorable and appealing characters. And then, you put that story and those characters in a believable world, not realistic but believable for the story that you're telling.

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

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.