Quotes from Christopher Miller

I'd much rather have our brand be doing weird stuff than doing normal stuff.

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.

I really wish I could play the piano really well without having to practice.

There's some central relationship in every movie, and that's what stories are.

You need to come up with a reason to make a movie, separate from the commercial side.

'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.'

With comedies, often shorter is better. You don't want to outstay your welcome.

'Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes' was really well done.

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.

Charlie Day is a delight of a human being.

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.

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.

Animation is just another way of telling a story.

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.

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.

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.

Low expectations is the key to happiness in life.

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.

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.

What's interesting about Lego is it's constantly reminding you that it's a facsimile of something else.

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.

'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.

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.