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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.