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" For artists, we're always looking for approval. We're putting our artwork out there and saying, 'What do you think?' "
Rich Moore
You
Always
Looking
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" The hallmark of a good comedy is that it can make you laugh, but it can also take you to the point where you're in love with these characters, and you want to see them be happy, and you want to feel that emotion for them. "
Rich Moore
You
Be Happy
Good
" People will sometimes put each other in boxes and have biases toward one another because of what they look like or where they come from or who they are. But ultimately, it's up to us to decide who we are. "
Rich Moore
Like
Us
Sometimes
" I remember as a kid seeing Pong in a pizza place where I grew up in Oxnard, California, and having my mind blown by it. I thought it was a TV. I thought it was just something playing on a television. But then to be able to manipulate the paddle, and the ball with the knob was, in those days, pretty huge to a little kid! It was a simpler time. "
Rich Moore
Mind
Remember
Thought
" My first movie I saw when I was a kid was 'The Jungle Book.' I was 5 years old, and I saw it in a movie theater. Seeing that movie really lit the fuse and ignited my passion for animation. "
Rich Moore
Kid
Seeing
Jungle
" I fell in love with this idea of an old school game character, like Donkey Kong, who looks like a very simple guy but is really wrestling with this very profound struggle: 'What's the meaning of life? What if I don't like this job I've been programmed to do?' "
Rich Moore
Life
Love
Struggle
" Good comedy films, if you listen to the score, the music is not trying to be funny. It's always, in a way, underscoring the tragedy and struggle of the main character. "
Rich Moore
Music
Good
Funny
" I'm really excited that the studio is trying, because when I began my career in the early '90s, late '80s, Disney was not something - though I respected it and liked what they were doing in those years - it's not like I thought I wanted to be a part of that studio right now. "
Rich Moore
Trying
Doing
Early
" I spent a lot of money and time at pizza places. Golf and Stuff in Ventura, right off the 101, was my hangout. Skating Plus, right behind it, always had a good selection of games. That was the place to be when you were from Oxnard back in the '80s. "
Rich Moore
Pizza
Money
Good
" I think that 'Family Guy' and 'The Critic' come from some of the same kind of seed. I don't know what it is. "
Rich Moore
Seed
Kind
Same
" I loved the Scarecrow and the Tin Man and the Lion and you could kind of see the actors' faces in them. It wasn't an entirely new face sculpted around them. What made those characters so human and appealing to me was seeing those great actors underneath there. They weren't lost behind a bunch of appliances. "
Rich Moore
Loved
Face
Great
" I like when entertainment not only makes me laugh or cry or thrills me, but makes the world a little clearer - and makes myself a little clearer. "
Rich Moore
World
Myself
Cry
" I think 'Wreck-It Ralph' can stand proudly in the pantheon of the great Disney animated films. It's a fairy tale disguised as something more contemporary. With its balance of heart and comedy, it is still very much rooted in the Disney legacy. "
Rich Moore
Great
Think
Legacy
" I love the idea of a very simple 8-bit video game character struggling with the complex question: 'isn't there more to life than the role I've been assigned?' "
Rich Moore
Life
Character
Simple
" I love that fans feel comfortable enough to send us their artwork. "
Rich Moore
Feel
Enough
Comfortable
" You know how they say that old people with Alzheimer's, they kind of go back, and they revert to the most emotional part of their life, what they did when they were younger... I think I am going to be cursed with reliving 'Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope' in my mind. And playing 'Dragon's Layer' when I enter Alzheimer's. "
Rich Moore
I Am
Hope
Think
" You put as much effort as you can when they're young into trying to teach them to be good people or make them the best they can be, and they're older now, my kids. I'm at that stage where I let them go, and you just hope that all that nurturing you did earlier on sticks, and you launched good people out there. "
Rich Moore
People
Best
Good
" From the moment we started working on the first 'Wreck-It Ralph,' we knew there were so many possibilities with these characters. "
Rich Moore
Moment
Working
Started
" The best games came from great characters. "
Rich Moore
Came
Best
Characters
" I think when, like, things like 'The Wizard' and even like 'Tron,' when it first came out, I was a teenager, and, man, I really wanted to kind of just kind of disappear into it. "
Rich Moore
Kind
Like
First
" I think it would be impossible to make a movie about video games if there wasn't some violence that we know from video games. "
Rich Moore
Think
Video Games
Violence
" I love living in Burbank. It has major movie studios, huge media empires, but the city still feels like a mom-and-pop town. It's not pretentious at all. It doesn't feel like a big Hollywood town, and it has every right to be, but it's very friendly and easygoing. "
Rich Moore
City
Living
Media
" I remember the N64 coming out. That was a beautiful day. "
Rich Moore
Beautiful
Remember
Day
" I loved 'The Secret of NIMH.' When that came out, it felt like, 'Wow, this is something really, really new.' It looked like a Disney film, but it felt very cutting edge to me. To a twelve-year-old kid, it seemed very inspiring. "
Rich Moore
Edge
Film
Loved
" Disney is a place that I've always rooted for, and I think the audience does also because we have a deep, deep love for what that means. "
Rich Moore
Place
Love
Audience
" The challenge is, how do you take someone who's supposed to be a villain and make that appealing and lovable? You have to empathize with him and put yourself in his shoes and root for him and want him to have the things he wants. "
Rich Moore
Shoes
Challenge
Yourself
" I went to Cal Arts. I went to art school. "
Rich Moore
Arts
Art
School
" I'm part of that original generation that came up playing video games, that pumped a lot of our allowance into video games. We financed the rise of video games. I started playing them in the Straw Hat Pizza Palace at the Carriage Square Mall in Oxnard, CA. "
Rich Moore
Hat
Video Games
Pizza
" This new generation of animators was trained in CG. They know all the fundamentals of any 2D animator, but a lot of them learned on these CG rigs. You give them a good rig, and they can make that thing sing. "
Rich Moore
You
Generation
Good
" I like giving the audience a lot of stuff to look at, and rewards for repeated viewings and paying attention. "
Rich Moore
Attention
Look
Audience
" Between 'Futurama' and 'Simpsons,' I'm able to work with the voices of Michael Jackson, Dustin Hoffman, and the cast of 'Star Trek.' It's great, you know; it's great to work with such talented people. "
Rich Moore
People
Great
Work