Every movie goes through that U-shape where you start with ‘Oh that’s a great idea. I love it.’ Everything’s possible and then you face ‘Oh, we can’t do that, and that’s impossible, and that’s a...

I’m a very soft-spoken person. I don’t throw furniture. I don’t throw tantrums.

A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right – that’s something you can’t rush.

I’m not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.

When you make a movie, it’s just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it becomes something else.

Growing up, my sisters and I would always talk stories. One of my frustrations was I didn’t know anything about cameras. I didn’t know how to make a film and I obviously didn’t have a...

I don’t think about the gender thing very much. But when I speak at schools, I’ve had female students say to me afterwards, “I never envisioned myself being a director, since I’ve never seen women...

I’ve been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

If you have a movie that doesn’t strive to go to a certain emotional point, you can do anything and it will be fine and funny. But if you have something pretty emotional at its...

Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it’s getting into the moment for them, and making sure they can lose themselves in the performance!

There aren’t a lot of female story artists, and it’s baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in school that are female and I wonder, ‘Where did they all go?’ People have brought...