diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 45ecc1f7..3bfcdae2 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,24 +1,14 @@
-FROM ubuntu:18.04
-ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
-RUN apt-get update -qqy
-RUN apt-get install -qqy --no-install-recommends apt-utils
-WORKDIR /root
-RUN apt-get install --no-install-recommends -qqy build-essential libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 bzip2 \
-libbz2-dev zlib1g-dev libssl-dev openssl libgdbm-dev \
-libgdbm-compat-dev liblzma-dev libreadline-dev \
-libncursesw5-dev libffi-dev uuid-dev wget ffmpeg apt-transport-https texlive-latex-base \
-texlive-full texlive-fonts-extra sox git libcairo2-dev libjpeg-dev libgif-dev && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-RUN wget -q https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.0/Python-3.7.0.tgz
-RUN tar -xf Python-3.7.0.tgz
-WORKDIR Python-3.7.0
-RUN ./configure > /dev/null && make -s && make -s install
-RUN python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
+FROM python:3.7
+RUN apt-get update \
+    && apt-get install -qqy --no-install-recommends \
+        apt-utils \
+        ffmpeg \
+        texlive-latex-base \
+        texlive-full \
+        texlive-fonts-extra \
+        sox \
+        libcairo2-dev \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 COPY requirements.txt requirements.txt
-RUN python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
-RUN rm requirements.txt
-WORKDIR /root
-RUN rm -rf Python-3.7.0*
-ENV TZ=America/Los_Angeles
-RUN ln -snf /usr/share/zoneinfo/$TZ /etc/localtime && echo $TZ > /etc/timezone
-ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND teletype
-ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/bash"]
+RUN python -m pip install -r requirements.txt && rm requirements.txt
+ENTRYPOINT ["python", "-m", "manim"]
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..941b4edc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+version: '3.1'
+
+services:
+  manim:
+    image: manim
+    build: .
+    volumes:
+      - ${MANIM_PATH:?MANIM_PATH environment variable isn't set}:/opt/manim
+    environment:
+      - PYTHONPATH=/opt/manim
+    working_dir: /opt/manim