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Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.

While films are a very visual and emotional artistic medium, video games take it one step further into the realm of a unique personal experience.

So if you want to have a great video game-based movie you have to keep the mood of the game, use the normal character setup - but you have to flesh out the story and provide more background for the characters.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I start to think about the plot as a fairy tale, or a dream, or a nightmare... As if it was the best way to tell the truth about characters or narration, instead of realism.

The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters.

I really want to do film, but I want to do the right film. The truth for me is that I'm really driven by stories. So there are stories I want to tell, and if it's a good story then I want to do it, whatever genre it is.

Once we start seeing video games that have more memorable characters, you'll see better movie adaptations.

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.