“ Mulan’s motivation is a lot about honor and self-sacrifice, which is kind of a new angle. New for us, but age-old in China, and that’s interesting. I will always remember Mulan as one of those pictures where the emotional core of the story was always there and always remained intact no matter what angle we tried to tell the story from. Finally, it just dictated its own direction. The picture kept saying, ‘This is really a story about a father and a daughter and honor - not girl meets boy and they live happily ever after. ”