With a bucket of Lego, you can tell any story. You can build an airplane or a dragon or a pirate ship - it's whatever you can imagine.
Low expectations is the key to happiness in life.
What's interesting about Lego is it's constantly reminding you that it's a facsimile of something else.
'Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes' was really well done.
The medium is less important than the story we're trying to tell and the funniest way to tell it.
Animation is just another way of telling a story.
That was the political reality of 1987: Saxophones made you cool. That's real! That really happened in our society!
It's hard to make a movie that is both funny and emotional, that has something to say and is clear to the audience.
'South Park' movie was R. There's a place that people are not occupying, thinking that animated has to be family always, and I don't think that's true.
When I was a kid on the playground, fights were about who got to play Han Solo. He's just one of the best characters ever created.
Animation is awesome because there's a really bold type of comedy you can get away with that you couldn't get away with in live action: a broader, campier style.
TV shows are built on relationships, and it seemed kind of odd to make a show without any relationships in it.
If you tried to make a 'Game of Thrones' movie, you'd have to eliminate two-thirds of the characters, and there'd have to be one storyline, but on TV, you can really get to know the characters in a way that there just isn't time to do in a movie.
It would be nice at some point to do something that people expect to be good. Although then with high expectations come a lot more pressure.
I always feel like the hammer's going down right around the corner, and I think that level of constant anxiety is what keeps us from getting too lazy.
I really wish I could play the piano really well without having to practice.
I like superhero films, and I love Star Wars movies, but I want to make sure there's a wide diaspora of films getting made.
My son is the voice of The Lego Movie's Duplo alien.
Sequels are hard.
You need to come up with a reason to make a movie, separate from the commercial side.
