The Head of Story is defined differently for each film. But I found that the role for me was to support the director's vision, and to be a conduit to the story team - and managing that team to realize… — Walt Dohrn Copy Share Image
If you hug someone for seven seconds, it gives you a chemical drop in your brain. — Walt Dohrn Copy Share
The number one thing is creating this world ["Trolls" ] - what the world is going to look like, feel like and what technology… — Walt Dohrn Copy Share
I had to sit in front of all these people, and act like I knew what I was doing. I faked my way through… — Walt Dohrn Copy Share
I've always loved that film ['The Three Caballeros'], and we were looking for a way to apply it to our own work, and 'Trolls'… — Walt Dohrn Copy Share
We'd all [with Mike Mitchell] been together at Dreamworks for over ten years, so we all had the same goals. — Walt Dohrn Copy Share
We actually talked about Adam Sandler during the creation of 'Trolls,' because he does know how to time jokes. — Walt Dohrn Copy Share
I loved the Disney films, and Sterling Holloway was one of their chief talents. He never had to put on a voice, and that's… — Walt Dohrn Copy Share
The Head of Story is defined differently for each film. But I found that the role for me was to support the director's vision,… — Walt Dohrn Copy Share
It was so complex [in "Trolls"] that the technical team had to build a new program. It was about rendering and manipulating that weird… — Walt Dohrn Copy Share
Mike [Mitchell] brought me on as co-director, and eventually we ended up sharing a brain. It was overwhelming initially when I was working with… — Walt Dohrn Copy Share
I was trying to foster a great working relationship between those two departments [design and the writing teams], because classically in animation the two… — Walt Dohrn Copy Share
Since we've done that type of work [ voiceover], we know how isolating it can be, and we wanted to make the actors more comfortable. — Walt Dohrn Copy Share
