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" 'Bolt' was made by Walt Disney Animation Studios, not by Pixar. "
John Lasseter
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" If you've seen 'Spirited Away', 'Spirited Away' is set in a very, very Japanese sensibility. And so, to Japanese audiences, when Sen would walk up, the main character, and look at this big building with a flag on it with Japanese writing on it, everyone in Japan would know what that is. "
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" My brother liked sewing and sculpting and making things, and my sister sewed and painted and cooked and baked. She's a professional baker now and makes the most gorgeous sculpture-like cakes. She's the queen of wedding cakes in the Lake Tahoe area. "
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" You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters. "
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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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" Look at the films of Walt Disney: 'Snow White' came out in February 1938, and I can't think of another film from that year that's watched as much. The same is true of 'Bambi,' 'Dumbo'... even, frankly, 'Toy Story,' which is probably watched more than any other movie of 1995. "
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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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" Of all bugs, growing up I just loved the pill bugs. They roll up, you play with them, you wait for them to open up, and then when you touch them they roll up again. I just love that. "
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" Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood are among the most entertaining and beloved characters ever animated by Disney. "
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" When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, like, an amazing bit of action, but at the moment you're watching it, you have no idea why or what it's about. "
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" I always laugh at these companies that have these rules saying, 'You're only allowed to have this or that on your desk.' It's no fun to work at a place like that. "
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" What I love about Goofy is the flesh on his cheeks. You can almost feel it. "
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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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" I am, by nature, an honest person. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. There is no 'behind closed doors' with me. "
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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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" I love Japan. I love the collision of the modern and ancient worlds coming together in that place. It's so high-tech and cool. "
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" The specific influences on villains to me is, 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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" I'm a big Disneyland nut. "
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" Pixar has invented much of computer animation as it's known today, and I've been very lucky to be the first traditional animator to work with computer animation. "
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