When you're dealing with clay animation people forget that every single set is built to scale and by hand.
What I love most about animation is it's a team sport and everything we do is about pure imagination.
I think the idea of a traditional story being told using traditional animation is likely a thing of the past
Shrek is not like anything anybody has ever seen before.
You can tell when an actor or actress cares about their work. It's really clear.
The entire exhibitions industry in the United States of America has filed for bankruptcy.
Movies are not a growth business
Inspiration comes from all different places.
The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology.
A company like DreamWorks all we do is make product. That's all we do. We don't own distribution. We are purely in the creation of content.
Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.
I have a very difficult time getting the Napster world.
Since we made Shrek in the digital format you actually can see it in its purest form digitally.
I haven't got a lot of patience.