Occupation: Director Birth: December 5, 1970
If you hug someone for seven seconds, it gives you a chemical drop in your brain..
The Head of Story is defined differently for each film. But I found that the role for me was to support the director's vision, and to be a conduit to….
I was trying to foster a great working relationship between those two departments [design and the writing teams], because classically in animation th….
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, m….
It was so complex [in "Trolls"] that the technical team had to build a new program. It was about rendering and manipulating that weird hair. We also ….
I loved the Disney films, and Sterling Holloway was one of their chief talents. He never had to put on a voice, and that's what Mike [Mitchell] and I….
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 actually talked about Adam Sandler during the creation of 'Trolls,' because he does know how to time jokes..
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..
The world is in such a place of social unrest and there's so much violence..
Sometimes actors come in, you record them, and they do their role..
We'd all [with Mike Mitchell] been together at Dreamworks for over ten years, so we all had the same goals..
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 depar….
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 ….