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.

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

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

Animation, for me, is a wonderful art form. I never understood why the studios wanted to stop making animation. Maybe they felt that the audiences around the world only wanted to watch computer animation. I didn't understand that, because I don't think ever in the history of cinema did the medium of a film make that film entertaining or not. What I've always felt is, what audiences like to watch are really good movies.

Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it.

This is what I always tell my filmmakers-you have to do tons of research, because you don't know where the inspiration is going come from.

I've got Disney blood running through my veins.