The drive of the story is sort of hinted at the beginning, is Joy and Sadness and those two characters. Especially Joy starting to understand that th….

It is one of those weird social things. Even as parents we say, oh, don't be sad. You know, come here, we'll distract you with some ice cream or some….

My father was working on his Ph.D. on Danish choral music - the Danish choral music of Carl Nielsen - so over there to do research..

I mean, I've - these other films were flukes. I don't know what I'm doing. I should just quit. What would I miss? I'd miss my house and I'd miss goin….

And in part that's good but then, like any emotion - and this is something we learned from the research as well - there are positive and negative asp….

And it sort of hit me that the very subject matter of the film that I'm dealing with is the key to the most important thing in our lives, and that's ….