Animation is a technique, not a genre.

My agent called and said, 'How do you feel about a pirate movie? I mean, how often are you going to get that call? It's sort of the singularly most failed genre of our time, but I thought it had to be attempted one more time. I think there's something rebellious about pirates, something revolutionary about them. They came out of a time when things were oppressive; you could get hung for stealing a loaf of bread. For me, the Pirates films are about when it's right to break the rules to achieve what you want.

I want to diagnose the audience a bit and then offer a cure.

I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.

I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear

It's always good to keep people guessing.

The curse is an incredible set of blue balls.

I'd love to do a PG-13 animated adventure. It would be great.

Animated films are so precisely engineered - right down to forming lines of dialogue with words pulled from several different takes - how do you translate that spontaneity from the live-action to the digital realm?

Reading in a sound booth seems very strange. Everyone has a process they are comfortable with; this was uncomfortable for me.