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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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