If you hug someone for seven seconds, it gives you a chemical drop in your brain.

The world is in such a place of social unrest and there's so much violence.

I was trying to foster a great working relationship between those two departments [design and the writing teams], because classically in animation the two don't get along.

We actually talked about Adam Sandler during the creation of 'Trolls,' because he does know how to time jokes.

Since we've done that type of work [ voiceover], we know how isolating it can be, and we wanted to make the actors more comfortable.

We'd all [with Mike Mitchell] been together at Dreamworks for over ten years, so we all had the same goals.

I had to sit in front of all these people, and act like I knew what I was doing. I faked my way through it pretty well.

Mike [Mitchell] brought me on as co-director, and eventually we ended up sharing a brain. It was overwhelming initially when I was working with departments I hadn't had contact with before.

The number one thing is creating this world ["Trolls" ] - what the world is going to look like, feel like and what technology will we need to use to get there.

Sometimes actors come in, you record them, and they do their role.

I've always loved that film ['The Three Caballeros'], and we were looking for a way to apply it to our own work, and 'Trolls' was it - psychedelic, musical and kinetic insanity.

Whatever is within your limit, do it to lift the souls of humankind.

HungerYou are only here now, and then you are gone. So be hungry. Hunger toward beauty. Hunger toward love. Hunger towards the unimaginable and unthinkable.

Consciousness is not about information but about its opposite: order. Consciousness is not a complex phenomenon

if you are different and alone it doesn't mean you wont see a moonlight

Curiosity is god’s greatest gift to man, but my gift is a little amplified.

Let us not have puny thoughts. Let us think on a greater scale. Let us not have those of the future decry our smallness of concept and lack of foresight.

The shovel is the brother to the gun.

People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.

I have intentions as a writer, but people - when they're listening to a track - will take from it what they interpret.

If the authors and custodians of history turn out to have an attractive image, it is only reasonable to look beyond and ask whether the image they construct is accurate.