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

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.

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.

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

I ... would guess maybe about one or two out of five men is suited for marriage and probably four out of five women are better at marriage than being single and would like to be married.

Gratuitous cruelty borders on the pathological, psychotic and that becomes uninteresting because there is no choice.

Communism is a form of society where the less people have to eat, the more they have to swallow.

I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.

Enemies are an indication of character.

Once you find out what makes you comfortable and happy, it's a lot easier to be confident.So, be yourself!

At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive.

Ben was a great believer in buying a diversified group of securities, so that he limited his risk.