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JW: [laughs]...It was as if an atomic bliss bomb had gone off inside my soul, and I don't think that my matter re-materialized for six months. I highly recommend winning an Oscar. It was the most fun I ever had with my clothes on.

BO: You go to cloud nine and at a certain point I started asking the question: "Do I have to get off?"

WJ: Moon Cheese.

BO: Pluto droppings.

WJ: One of my favorite things was Brandon and I went to a bunch of junk stores and bought all this metal junk. Like old pressure cookers and waffle irons, and coffee pots and just nutty metal stuff. And we built a miniture city in my living room out of that junk. That became the template of the whole look of Robots. As the production designer we sort of inspire a team to find the visual language that everybody agrees works for the story and the characters, and is cool. The whole process of making the movie with the team and with Chris Wedge was more fun than recess, but politics of the studio filmmaking can weary the happiest spirit.

WJ: Study the masters of animation. Live and breathe what you learn from them. Internalize every lesson that you can see. Read, devour, become the art form. Treat it as a religion, or a calling. And if you're good, your talent will shine through, and people will hire you. You don't have to go to college to learn this. You just have to want it so bad that you can't not do it.

BO: By far it wasn't the first film, but I saw Raiders of Lost Ark and when I walked out I told my dad what I wanted to do the rest of my life, and my dad said: "An Archeologist!?"

WJ: Bambi was one of my first film experiences, and I was with my mom and Bambi's mom died it really messed with me cause I realized it happens to everyone's mom at some point. Then it just freaked me out, but it was awesome at the same time that I felt that from a story that was drawn. It wasn't reality it was this other thing, and from that point on I knew there was a difference between reality and stories, but that stories came from reality, and I preferred thinking in terms of stories. The first movie I saw was The Day The Earth Stood Still, and it melted my brain and I haven't been the same since.