I have always wanted to work in the theater. I've always felt the glamour of being backstage and that excitement, but I've never actually done it - not since I was in 5th grade, really. But I've had many plays in my films. I feel like maybe theater is a part of my movie work.

I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.

The thing with animation is that you record the actors like a radio show and then the animators become actors in their own way because it's their job to take this puppets and make them seem alive. They bring their own personalities to the way they move these puppets.

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.

I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.

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

I don't think any of us are normal people.