I came into DreamWorks looking to direct. I was hoping to go through story as a way toward directing, because that's how it worked at Disney, story people became heads of story, and heads of story became directors. And they said, 'Right now we don't have a lot of story, but we have visual development,' and I said, 'Good, I paint!'

Quoted by Michael Mallory in "Firsts Among Equals", Animation Magazine (March 6th, 2014).