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.

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.

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.

Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.

You have a right to dream big but you don't have to kill your dream

Her mother and memory lapses were BFFs.

The fool has said in his heart: pass me another Everlasting God-Stopper, please.

The headgear thing's great. It's like a headband, so it's not heavy or anything like that at all. I was able to do everything fine.

Formerly, a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary, to keep him properly in the public eye.

I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.

Great children's books are wisdom dipped in words and art.

Time is not an absolute reality but an aspect of our consciousness.

How do we get out of our small mind? When we enquire into the core of our existence. What is life? Who am I? This spirit of self-inquiry can awaken something inside you.