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…

- Ron Clements

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

- Ron Clements

[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 …

- Ron Clements

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…

- Ron Clements

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…

- Ron Clements

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…

- Ron Clements