We'd all [with Mike Mitchell] been together at Dreamworks for over ten years, so we all had the same goals.
Walt DohrnI 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.
Walt DohrnMike [Mitchell] brought me on as co-director, and eventually we ended up sharing a brain. It was overwhelming initially when I was working with departments I hadn't had contact with before.
Walt Dohrn