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

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.

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.

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.

If you don’t want to just live an ordinary life, then you will have to be intentional about converting all your time into that which you have been called to do.

To be filled with fear is to open to the wrong way

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. The past is history. The future is mysterious. Then tomorrow—this starts all over again.

I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor.

A company is an organic, living, breathing thing, not just an income sheet and balance sheet. You have to lead it with that in mind.

A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.

Given any new technology for transmitting information, we seem bound to use it for great quantities of small talk. We are only saved by music from being overwhelmed by nonsense.

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.

New herrings, new!' we must cry, every time we make ourselves public, or else we shall be christened with a hundred new titles of idiotism.