We really wanted someone from the culture to sort of do that. And we heard about Taika [Waititi]. We saw his movie Boy, which that he had directed an….

[John Musker] got me reading the mythology and we very early on we worked up a basic storyline centered around the character of Maui. He just seemed ….

I have basset hounds. I have four now, I've had more in the past, and I relate to them because physically we're similar, in that they have very short….

There are stories of Maui everywhere in the South Pacific. They're different. Different areas have different interpretations. But and so we [with Joh….

Taika [Waititi] came up... We kind of had and we sort of named this girl Moana, named after the ocean. And we had a very, a visual outline of the sto….

It was really John's [Musker] idea to begin with to tell a story set in the world of the South Pacific, Polynesia. He started, he just loved the worl….