Dan Scanlon

I was an animator for a while early on, but a 2D animator.

At Pixar, we do a million versions of the movie, and every one of them goes through their awkward teenage phase where it's terrible and doesn't make sense, and we just keep working on it.

I worked in the story department for years on 'Cars' and 'Toy Story 3.'

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

What was always interesting about Thomas Harris' books is they were a wonderful hybridization of a crime thriller and a horror movie.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.