I always loved the idea of a spy movie and part of it came from my personal love of spy movies. It started when I was growing up as a little kid in the 60s.

People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life.

To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.

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.

Humor is the easiest to achieve; the 'heart' is always the toughest, because you can't tell people to feel a certain way.

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

Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.