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" Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology. "
John Lasseter
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" Pixar has been compared to fine furniture makers who polish the backs of drawers - even if you don't see everything in a particular scene, you still feel that every little detail has been met. "
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" 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. "
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" What I love about Goofy is the flesh on his cheeks. You can almost feel it. "
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" At Pixar, good ideas may be cut from a film, but they are never forgotten. "
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" Every Pixar movie at one time was the worst motion picture ever made. "
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" At Pixar, we do sequels only when we come up with a great idea, and we always strive to be different than the original. "
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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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" I loved animation and cartoons, even when it was not cool when you were in high school. I raced home to see the Bugs Bunny cartoons. "
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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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" If you think something's stupid, it probably is. "
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" I've got Disney blood running through my veins. "
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Got
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Veins
" I can't tell you, as a parent, how it feels when the doctor tells you your child has diabetes. First off, you don't really know much about it. Then you discover there is no cure. "
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" Rotten Tomatoes is such a great website, in that it has one foot in the Internet world and one foot in the cinema world, and it keeps its grounding between them just perfectly. "
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World
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" Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period. "
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Simple
Best
Business
" 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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Emotions
" I never quite understood why Disney hadn't made a sincere fairy tale since 'Beauty and the Beast.' "
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" 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. "
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" There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them. "
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" I'm a big fan of pantomime storytelling, being an animator. "
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Being
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" As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas. "
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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've always been thinking in three dimensions, ever since I started working with computer animation in the early '80s. "
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" It's the nature of Hollywood that there are the people in power and the people who tell them what they want them to hear. "
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" 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. "
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" You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism. "
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Been
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" Today, among little girls especially, princesses and the romanticised ideal they represent - finding the man of your dreams - have a limited shelf life. "
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