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

Whether I'm directing live action or animation, my responsibility is the same. I have an audience sitting in a theater with their popcorn, and I've got to show them a good time and make them feel something.

I think the moment you try to make a movie for kids, you make garbage.

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

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.

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.

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