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

The spirit of Route 66 is in the details: every scratch on a fender, every curl of paint on a weathered billboard, every blade of grass growing up through a cracked street.

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts

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

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.

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.

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