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Sequels are hard.
Charlie Day is a delight of a human being.
Low expectations is the key to happiness in life.
Animation is just another way of telling a story.
My son is the voice of The Lego Movie's Duplo alien.
'Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes' was really well done.
There's some central relationship in every movie, and that's what stories are.
With comedies, often shorter is better. You don't want to outstay your welcome.
The medium is less important than the story we're trying to tell and the funniest way to tell it.
What's interesting about Lego is it's constantly reminding you that it's a facsimile of something else.
TV shows are built on relationships, and it seemed kind of odd to make a show without any relationships in it.
You have antiheroes in dramas, like Tony Soprano. But it's a little bit harder in comedy. You don't see it quite as much.
I like superhero films, and I love Star Wars movies, but I want to make sure there's a wide diaspora of films getting made.
We certainly had our share of failures early on and worked on a bunch of canceled sitcoms, which were very helpful in learning.
When I was a kid on the playground, fights were about who got to play Han Solo. He's just one of the best characters ever created.
With a bucket of Lego, you can tell any story. You can build an airplane or a dragon or a pirate ship - it's whatever you can imagine.
It would be nice at some point to do something that people expect to be good. Although then with high expectations come a lot more pressure.
There's something that's delightful about things getting bigger and more over-the-top. Sometimes it's empty, and other times, it's just fun.
I always feel like the hammer's going down right around the corner, and I think that level of constant anxiety is what keeps us from getting too lazy.
'South Park' movie was R. There's a place that people are not occupying, thinking that animated has to be family always, and I don't think that's true.
'The Lego Movie' did better than we could possibly have imagined. We were very nervous that people would discount it because it is called 'The Lego Movie.'
Just from a psychological standpoint, it's really helpful having films with a joyful message and positivity, so we try to do that with all our movies, really.
Animation is awesome because there's a really bold type of comedy you can get away with that you couldn't get away with in live action: a broader, campier style.
What's really cool about LEGOs is that you can put a bunch of bricks on the table, and everybody will make something different. Everyone has different ideas, and some of them may seem crazy.
All of everything we've ever done has been riding on low expectations. 'Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs,' a terrible idea. Doing '21 Jump Street' as a movie is a terrible idea. 'The Lego Movie' sounds like a terrible idea.
If you tried to make a 'Game of Thrones' movie, you'd have to eliminate two-thirds of the characters, and there'd have to be one storyline, but on TV, you can really get to know the characters in a way that there just isn't time to do in a movie.