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" 'Cars' is a really personal story for me because, first of all, I grew up in Los Angeles - the car crazy capital. "

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" Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it. "

" Of all studios that should be doing 2-D animation, it should be Disney. "

" You can achieve all the things you want to do, but it's much better to do it with loved ones around you; family and friends, people that you care about that can help you on the way and can celebrate you, and you can enjoy the journey. "

" 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. "

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

" What I love about Goofy is the flesh on his cheeks. You can almost feel it. "

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

" When you take something that's inert, and through motion, give it life, make it appear to be alive, living, breathing thinking and having emotions, that's animation. But when you take something that's live-action, and move a part of it, that's a special effect. "

" To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry. "

" Nobody pays attention to the way a person's shirt folds around his shoulder when they sit down, but if that shirt folded in an unusual way, you'd notice it. "

" 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. "

" I try to make pictures I would want to see. "

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

" I'm a big fan of pantomime storytelling, being an animator. "

" I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me. "

" I've noticed with my own kids, it seems like they have so much more homework than I did. "

" With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail. "

" Walt Disney always said, 'For every laugh, there should be a tear.' I believe in that. "

" I love bringing the inanimate object to life. "

" Pixar's short films convinced Disney that if the company could produce memorable characters within five minutes, then the confidence was there in creating a feature film with those abilities in story and character development. "

" A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences. "

" The interstate highway system was built to get people from point A to point B as fast as possible. And they knocked down mountains and filled valleys and made everything nice and big and flat, and they bypassed every town. "

" The greatest bad guys, you understand where they're coming from. They believe they're doing the right thing. Sometimes it's for greed, sometimes it's for other reasons, but they are what they call the center of good. They always believe they're doing the right thing. "

Doing The Right Thing

" I've often heard people say that managing creative people is the hardest thing in the world. 'They're never happy, they drive up the cost of things, blah blah blah.' I just manage people the way I always wanted to be managed. That is, to be creatively challenged, but never to be told what to do. "

" I've got Disney blood running through my veins. "

" The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters. "

" I believe that, by directing, it makes me a better executive as well. "

" We use shorts at the studio extensively to develop talent. I always love to give opportunities for young story people, animators, layout people something like that to take the next step up in their career and try things out. "

" At Pixar, 'Wall-E' was our ninth film, and they've all been successes - more than that, they've all really touched people. Everybody wonders, 'How do you do it?' Well, how do you not do it? You just work hard. "

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