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

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

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.

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.

I had to sit in front of all these people, and act like I knew what I was doing. I faked my way through it pretty well.