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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 would get so into playing as a kid that I'd lose track of time. "

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

" I was born in 1957, so when I was a kid, there wasn't anything called a video game. When 'Pong' came out, it was awesome. "

" I think that as I had children, I have five sons, and they got into video games and were the prime ages through the development of video games. It was so much fun seeing them play the games and seeing it through their eyes. "

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

" I don't believe that an animation studio should be an executive-driven studio. "

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

" 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. "

" You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters. "

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

" 'Bolt' was made by Walt Disney Animation Studios, not by Pixar. "

" 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. "

" I am, by nature, an honest person. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. There is no 'behind closed doors' with me. "

" I laugh very hard at work every day. "

" Every Pixar movie at one time was the worst motion picture ever made. "

" 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. "

" One of the big moments of my life was watching 'Star Wars' on its opening weekend in Hollywood. I was watching all these people enjoy this film, and I thought: animation can do this. "

" 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. "

" I'm a huge fan of Blu-rays myself. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The iPad changed my life! "

" 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. "

" When I started work with LucasArts Computer Division back in 1984, I went to the Palace of Fine Arts and saw the Festival of Animation for the first time. I loved the diverse collection of animated films the festival held. "

" 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. "

" Probably more than any other movie we've made here at Pixar, 'Up' was the one we were the most nervous about. "

" You never hear of a live-action studio that has been making so-so films looking over at a studio that's making great movies and going, 'Oh, we see the difference - we're using a different camera.' "

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