What happened to your hand? It got hit by a mirror. How'd that happen? I lost my temper at myself.

I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I want to tell.

With each movie I have a different set of inspirations.

Any time someone doesn't like one on the first run, I hope they will give it another shot. At least we'll get another chance. But I do feel, in my approach, I am not really a minimalist. I don't like to leave out ideas that I think could add something to the story. Sometimes, you can't quite pick up on all of it in one sitting. It's not by design. But maybe it's a side effect of my approach.

The kids are the ones that have a clarity about what they want. They don't have any wisdom, but they do have a clear understanding about what they want to have happen.

Animating is a very slow, pain-staking process and the animators become the actors at that point.

It's not usually that great of an idea to read lots of reviews of your movies, because even if somebody's saying nice things, there'll still be something in there that pushes the wrong button, and it's not really that helpful.