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" I don't really think of myself as a businessman at all. That's why I have the 'chief creative officer' role. "

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" Growing up, my favorite TV show was 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.', hands down. "

" People want to be creatively satisfied, and having fun is such an important part of that. "

" We work very hard in all of the Pixar films to not make anything in the imagery that causes people to think of something other than the story. "

" At Pixar, we've been huge fans of any new technology that makes the viewer experience of our movies better. Blu-ray is the best yet because the picture quality, especially for our movies, is unbelievable. "

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

" I laugh very hard at work every day. "

" The magic of Disneyland, walking through the tunnel underneath the train station to Main Street, it just transports you to other places and other times. "

" 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. "

" Steve Jobs is like a brother to me and he's one of the founders of Pixar, and when the first iPad came out, I got one right away. "

" 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. "

" 'Cars 2' is about a character learning to be himself. There's times in our lives where people always say, 'Well, you've gotta act differently. You should always be yourself.' That's the emotional core of the story. "

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

" 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. "

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

" When you go into the theatre and the lights dim, you want to entertain people from beginning to end. You want them to be swept up in your story, on the edge of their seats, unable to wait to see what happens next, be blown away and afterwards just go, 'Wow!' "

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

" 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. "

" My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts. "

" 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. "

" Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we know. We trust our process. We don't get scared and say, 'Oh, no, this film isn't working.' "

" I believe once you watch a Miyazaki film, you'll get hooked. "

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

" True play is creativity. "

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" Sunday, for me, is all about being home with the family with no plans. "

" You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism. "

" Fortunately for me, I'm married to an amazing woman - Nancy Lasseter - who is wise enough not to let me buy every car I want. If I was single, I would be living in a very small apartment and renting a warehouse full of cool cars. "

" 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. "

" I've always been thinking in three dimensions, ever since I started working with computer animation in the early '80s. "