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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.