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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.