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.

Sometimes actors come in, you record them, and they do their role.

We'd all [with Mike Mitchell] been together at Dreamworks for over ten years, so we all had the same goals.

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.

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.

Since we've done that type of work [ voiceover], we know how isolating it can be, and we wanted to make the actors more comfortable.