Jennifer Lee says it was difficult finding the balance between adult and child audience with Frozen.
Lee made her directorial debut over the weekend as she teamed up with Chris Buck to direct Frozen; the fifty third film from Disney.
The first time filmmaker admits that you never know who the film is going to pan out until you put it in front of an audience.
"I think it is really difficult. In a way you cannot be consciously doing it, you have to do it by asking ‘is this scene resonating on many levels? Are we feeling it instinctively?’
"You are always pushing to tell the most cohesive, dynamic story with a lot of subtext as well as direct lines; and the same with the songs.
"You never know until you put it in front of a family audience if it is resonating. When we first showed it to an audience, we asked some people to stay and talk afterwards and one of the kids said ‘it’s about the power of fear over love’ - they really got right to it.
"With the adults they were like ‘it is about me and my sister’. So, adults tend to make it more personal because they have got layers of life, and kids go right to the heart of it.
"What we liked is doing the humour that can hit everyone; it can get you in the gut no matter if you are six or sixty. If it makes us laugh, it will usually make a kids laugh (laughs)."
Lee made history over the weekend as she became the first woman to ever direct a Disney feature film.
Frozen has proved to be a critic and box office smash as it toppled The Hunger Games: Catching Fire from the top of the U.S. box office.
The movie has already picked up a string of Annie Award nominations and looks set to be up for the Best Animated Oscar.
Frozen is out now.
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