We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That's why our goal is to screw up as fast as possible.

It's one thing to make peace with the idea of something that's going to happen someday; it's another to find yourself at that day.

You can tell a story clearly in the storyboards, but if you don't keep the correct focus in the animation, it can be ruined.

Kids don't have the same sense of their own mortality as adults.

If it's not working, you can't polish a turd.

If you try to target a movie at kids, you end up with something that makes parents take a nap.

If you're working on something and it's not coming together, it's easy to say, "I don't want to show this, until I've figured it out." But a lot of times you don't really solve the problems, and then you start getting into a bad situation because you don't have the time to fix it.