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.

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

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

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.

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

I loved the Disney films, and Sterling Holloway was one of their chief talents. He never had to put on a voice, and that's what Mike [Mitchell] and I encourage. I love the voices that have a unique texture, but it's their real voice.