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 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.

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.

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

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.

The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.

Of a sudden he felt that fraternity life was the only way to exist at college. How could he have doubted? (126)

One finds nobility in the oddest places.

There was laughter in the back of the theater, leading to the belief that someone was telling jokes back there.

Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it. Not Now!

Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a student.

The dead walk among us.

Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears

Pollution is merely a resource that isn't being used properly.

I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms.