The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them ok, be sad now. Humor, you can add. Even to the last minute you can be adding little bits of humor. But the true earned emotion is something that you really have to craft.

Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.

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

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

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.

One of the fun things about play is making up stories.

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?"