Conrad Vernon

When I was a kid, I used to stay up after 'Saturday Night Live' to watch the horror shows. ”

Even in the Pixar and DreamWorks animated movies, there are themes that could be taken into an adult area very easily. 'Zootopia,' I think, is the closest so far; I love that movie because they really did push the envelope as far as the ideas and writing of an animated film for families. ”

I was one of those kids who moved around a lot, but in every town I ever lived in, there was always that after-midnight horror show. It was hosted by Elvira when I lived in L.A. There were other ones. I can't remember the rest of them. They were always able to pull out the sense of humor in the movie. ”

When you work in animation that's all for a family audience, as an adult you desperately want to break out of that. ”