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What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.

For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.

And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy.

Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level.

It's a very smart and heartfelt movie and that's why, I think, we're all drawn to it. We really showed up for this with this collective idea that it was really ambitious, but we felt we all really had something to gain from it.

There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell a story.

The thing that I enjoy about animation is the fact that it is unbridled, and there are no boundaries; when you are in the room, you don't have to focus on your clothing, make-up, hair, your choreography or your blocking; you really do have total freedom.