Stealing, you'll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it.

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.

You look at material a different way when your ass is on the line financially for it. You want to know where the big laughs are, and how we're going to sell this.

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.

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

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

Stealing, you'll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it.