I had to sit in front of all these people, and act like I knew what I was doing. I faked my way through it pretty well.

It was so complex [in "Trolls"] that the technical team had to build a new program. It was about rendering and manipulating that weird hair. We also wanted to break the mold of what what we thought the princess was about...we wanted to keep her troll 'look' - the stumpy legs, an ugly/cute look, it was all inspired from the doll.

If you hug someone for seven seconds, it gives you a chemical drop in your brain.

I've always loved that film ['The Three Caballeros'], and we were looking for a way to apply it to our own work, and 'Trolls' was it - psychedelic, musical and kinetic insanity.

The Head of Story is defined differently for each film. But I found that the role for me was to support the director's vision, and to be a conduit to the story team - and managing that team to realize the vision.

I was trying to foster a great working relationship between those two departments [design and the writing teams], because classically in animation the two don't get along.

I had to sit in front of all these people, and act like I knew what I was doing. I faked my way through it pretty well.