"I was interested in the story of my bird. One of the reasons I wanted to do [Rio] is because I’ve become sort of friendly with animal life and to do a movie that promotes, um, the preservation of endangered species, the protection of the environment, was a wonderful opportunity and it does it in a way that is not, uh, condescending; it does it in a way that is definitely not explicitly political or crass. And it does it in a way that’s fun."
