When you hear a famous voice, sometimes that takes me out of the movie.
I think I do too many voices in these shows. I think it's because we have trouble getting voice talent.
Years and years of talking and writing versions of the script [Sausage Party] and looking at various versions of the animations - I mean, it's really a lot of workshopping and trying different things, and using the cast to try different voices and characters. And that's the good thing about animation. Because it takes so long, it allows you to explore in a way that you can't in live-action movies.
On 'Shrek,' Eddie Murphy was locked in as the donkey before we'd even designed the donkey.
I loved the Disney films, and Sterling Holloway was one of their chief talents. He never had to put on a voice, and that's what Mike [Mitchell] and I encourage. I love the voices that have a unique texture, but it's their real voice.
With voice acting it just matters what your voice can do. There are some things that I won't get over other people because my register isn't as deep as other people. So if someone wants a deep, dark, brooding villain voice then they are probably not going to pick me.
The way I choose voice talent is I don't let them tell me who the actor is.
It is mostly a spur of the moment decision to try out an actor's voice for a particular song.
I'm so tired of hearing casting directors ask if I have a sore throat. The people who have told me that my voice is distinctive, it's unusual...those people have always been close to my heart.
On TV, it is more efficient to use voice-over people because it is really hard to get celebrity voices to recur in a series.
I just don't like it when people get credited for their voice work and it's really shitty. It's really thin, there's nothing to it, there's no meat behind it. It's, like, "Oh, it's a celebrity."
