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As a director, you try to find what is creative.

When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.

I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career.

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.

I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.

As a director, the biggest job is to discern the imperfections in emotional tone and then view it in the global picture of what you're trying to do, if that makes sense. It's a rhythm, like music is a rhythm or composition and art is a rhythm. Dialogue is a rhythm as well.

I'm not an art director; I'm just not. I've always been somebody who has a sensibility that I hope is the same sensibility of others.

But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.

You do not want to be in a creative organisation with everybody being like-minded and stroking each other's creative egos. You want differences of opinion... constructively.