I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project, it either got thrown away by the teacher or something.

It's amazing what we can get away with and what we can't. But it's not for me to decide.

One thing I always heard from the begining when I talked about this being a movie - was that the rule is that animated movies don't work unless they're Disney movies for kids. Unless they're family movies.

It seems like there's a lot of people who just do not understand satire. They think it's weird. There's people who just don't understand you portray something or just explore a character, it means you're condoning it, saying this is the way to live.

There was a time when cell animation was poison, but after Family Guy now everyone wants it.

I probably drive casting people crazy because I'm not thinking about actors so much as real people.

It kind of hit me at some point during the process that most people in the film business - not just the executives, the people who make them, too - tend to come from pretty upper-class backgrounds. If they go work a job, it's to have that experience, that sort of thing. After they graduate college, they have time to go visit Europe and take some time off and get their heads together. That kind of thing, I sure didn't have.