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.

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

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.

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.

Sophronia felt bound to object. "I, for one, should prefer not to shoot at someone I like.""Admirable scruples, Miss Temminnick. Get over them. For you will do it anyway.

What was I was dying for? The sins of the past? The wrongs of the present? Did it even matter?

Doing nothing is hard. You never know when you’re done. —T-SHIRT

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for fear that if I actually like them then I will kill their campaign.

Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.

A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it

In the West, the spirit is separate from the body. In the East these are things that are very real and concrete.

Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they're not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don't have.

Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?