I Had A Great Movement Teacher -

Self-expression Is Something That You've Crafted, Something That You've Found. You've Practiced On That Piano For Hours, You Didn't Hang Out With Your Buddies, You Didn't Go After The Girls, You Stayed In Your Own Little Geeky Room Or You Wrote For Hours.

I Love His [brad Furman] Ferocious Desire For Perfection And His Love Of Vitality, It Feeds Me, Man. It Feeds Him And It Feeds The Whole Crew. And He's Got Huge Respect For Talent. And That's Why Talent Goes In And Gives It 300% Percent.

Self-expression, To Me, Is Something That You Worked On, That You Have Mastered A Skill To Say Something In The Most Artful Way That You Can. It's Not Just Blurting Stuff Out And Having Verbal Diarrhea.

[brad Furman] Wants To Try Stuff, He's Willing To Try Stuff. And He Wants Electricity On The Camera. And That's What I Want, I Want Electricity Whenever I'm Performing.

But When You Are Doing An Animated Voice, It Has To Have More Energy Than Usual Or It Falls Flat And Doesn't Work. For Myself, I Found That I Had To Put Myself In The Same Physical Or Emotional State As Sid, In Order To Make That Voice Sound Alive And Authentic. So If There Was A Scene In Which He Was Running, I Would Be Running Beforehand To Sound Out Of Breath. That's Important Because The Audience Can Tell Intuitively If It Does Not Sound Real.