Mike [Mitchell] brought me on as co-director, and eventually we ended up sharing a brain. It was overwhelming initially when I was working with departments I hadn't had contact with before.

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

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

The world is in such a place of social unrest and there's so much violence.

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.

The number one thing is creating this world ["Trolls" ] - what the world is going to look like, feel like and what technology will we need to use to get there.

We actually talked about Adam Sandler during the creation of 'Trolls,' because he does know how to time jokes.