If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month.

You can't make a good (movie) and win an Oscar.

I'd rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar.

I remember feeling that technology was like trying to draw with your foot. In a ski boot. It was the most indirect way to work imaginable, but the potential had us all excited. I started in stop motion.

Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script. They also gave us a mandate to make it into a comedy from what was previously a rather dramatic action concept.

What made 'Ice Age' work is that it had its shiny candy coatings, but inside was a soft, creamy center.