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

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.

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'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.

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

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

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