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    A gem of a short film has a sense of pure joy in animation that is different from anything you see in a feature film.

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    Animation, for me, is a wonderful art form. I never understood why the studios wanted to stop making animation. Maybe they felt that the audiences around the world only wanted to watch computer animation. I didn't understand that, because I don't think ever in the history of cinema did the medium of a film make that film entertaining or not. What I've always felt is, what audiences like to watch are really good movies.

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    Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.

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    Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.

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    At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.

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    'Bambi' is an amazing film, and when you watch it today, it's just as beautiful. It's timeless. It's just as beautiful today as it was back then.

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    'Cars' was about Lightning McQueen learning to slow down and to enjoy life. The journey is the reward.

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    Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

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    Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed.

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    Disney Infinity gives you the ability to be creative in a way that nobody's ever seen before.

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    Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

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    Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we know. We trust our process. We don't get scared and say, 'Oh, no, this film isn't working.'

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    Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it.

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    Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology.

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    I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.

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    I always loved the idea of a spy movie and part of it came from my personal love of spy movies. It started when I was growing up as a little kid in the 60s.

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    I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.

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    I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.

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    I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.

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    If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

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    I have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that.

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    I just devoured all of his [Buster Keaton’s] films because his sense of comic timing was amazing. He’s the closest a human being has ever come to a cartoon character. And I was just amazed at his sense of character and timing, the humor. It's all just so…sophisticated, even when you watch it today.

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    I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards "How did they do that?

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    I love the villains who are really hyper-smart. When at the end of the movie you find out what they were about, and it makes absolutely perfect sense from their point of view.

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    In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more computer memory you need.

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    In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.

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    I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.

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    I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.

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    I think that the entertainment industry and the entertainment press tends to focus on opening weekend box office as a measure of the success of a film and I think the true success is out there in people's homes and how much they absolutely love these characters.

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    I think the painted backgrounds in animations are absolutely stunningly beautiful. There's something really special about this medium. I don't believe audiences have grown past it. I think what audiences love is to be entertained-thoroughly, deeply entertained, and that's what I've always set out to do.

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    It [moviemaking] is about entertaining audiences with great characters and great stories, you want to make people laugh, you want to make people cry, you want to have great music that is memorable. You want a movie that, as soon as it's over, you want to watch it again, just like that. That's what it is, whether it's live-action, animation, hand drawn, computer, special effects, puppet animation, it doesn't matter. That's the goal of a filmmaker.

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    It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.

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    I've always loved animation it's the reason why I do what I do for a living - the films of Walt Disney. This art form is so spectacular and beautiful. And I never quite understood the feeling amongst animation studios that audiences today only wanted to see computer animation. It's never about the medium that a film is made in, it's about the story. It's about how good the movie is.

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    I've got Disney blood running through my veins.

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    I worry about kids today not having time to build a tree house or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry that life is getting faster and faster.

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    My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad.

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    My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts

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    Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

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    One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.

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    One of the fun things about play is making up stories.

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    One of the things about animation is it's so expensive to do the animation, that you can't produce coverage. You only have one chance to make every shot.

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    People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life.

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    Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating.

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    Quality is the best business plan.

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    Slice open one of my veins and cartoons will pour out; open another vein and you'll get a flood of motor oil.

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    Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.

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    Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.

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    The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

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    The closer you get to reality, the harder it is to make it look convincing to the audience. That's why I tend to make things [films] that are a little bit more caricature.

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    The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them ok, be sad now. Humor, you can add. Even to the last minute you can be adding little bits of humor. But the true earned emotion is something that you really have to craft.