"I’m from Cavite City, so I grew up there. A lot of times when I was a kid, I would create those little fantastic situations, so you would probably find me when I was a kid, I would be staging these little dramas wherein everything is imaginary…it’s kind of a little imaginary play and it would look very strange. And that’s what I did, because sometimes it’s raining so much in the Philippines," he tells me at a media event held at the Pixar studios in Emeryville, California.