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" I looked long and hard at third films in series to see if there were any good ones that I could learn from. And there weren't any that hadn't just gone off the train tracks by their third film. Until, that is, I got to the third 'Lord of the Rings' film. "

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" If you look at the beginning of children's entertainment in literature, the first books that were written for kids were cautionary tales. They were books that were there to teach kids about growing up and how to live life. "

Lee Unkrich

Children

Live Life

Live

" It wasn't the first film to show a kind of alternate vision of suburbia, but it left an indelible impression, I think, on everybody, and all films like that will forever be measured against 'Blue Velvet.' "

" I didn't want to be the guy who screwed up 'Toy Story.' "

" When we were making 'Toy Story,' my grandmother was very ill, and she knew she was not going to make it. I went back to visit her, and there was a moment during that visit that I had to say goodbye, and I knew I'd never be seeing her again. I looked at her and knew that I was looking at her for the last time. "

" Do you ever achieve total forgiveness after screwing up? "

Lee Unkrich

Achieve

You

" Going through the Chagrin Falls school system, I always thought I was going off to art school. "

" Every one of us at Pixar is worried that we're going to be the one to make the dud. "

" Finding a good kid actor is like finding a needle in a massive haystack. "

Lee Unkrich

Finding

Good

" After we finished 'Toy Story 2,' we talked about going right into making 'Toy Story 3,' because we had an idea that we thought had some promise. But there were a bunch of boring contractual problems going on between Disney and Pixar at the time that kept us from making the movie. "

" For 'Toy Story 3' to be recognized by the Academy as not only one of the best animated films of the year, but also as one of the 10 best pictures of the year, is both humbling and overwhelming. "

" One of the tricky things with animation is, because we spend four years on the movie and everything is done so methodically day by day by day, it can be a struggle to have the finished film feel spontaneous and loose and naturally occurring. "

" I love movies that are funny and scary and truly emotional all in one film, and I don't feel like I see movies like that a lot. "

" I guess it's the fear of failure and not knowing how the films are going to do that just drives us to work really hard to make them the best they can possibly be. "

" The walls between live-action and animation are becoming really porous, and it's interesting. "

" The best way to bring people in and have them empathize with others is through storytelling. "

" I'm lucky to be surrounded by incredibly talented people at Pixar, of course, and I learn a lot from them each and every day. "

" How about a good comedy? 'Raising Arizona.' Remains the funniest movie I've ever seen in my life. "

" My favorite film is 'The Shining,' mostly because it was the film that inspired me to become a filmmaker myself. "

Lee Unkrich

Film

Myself

" If we can tell a good story with characters audiences can care about, I'd like to think that prejudices can fall aside and people can just experience the story and these characters for the human beings that they are. "

" It's a strange business, and unfortunately, what we do in animation is a mystery, especially the directors. "

" For anyone who's had a transition in their life - heading off to college, parents sending their kids off to college, people getting out of college and heading off into the workforce. Those are major transitions. "

" When people think of Mexican music, they most often think of mariachi, and that, of course, is one part. "

" It is shocking how much a day-care center is like a prison. They both have security cameras with walled exercise yards. Prisons are permanent day cares for people permanently in time-out - convicts. "

" I really personalized the pressure to make a good 'Toy Story' film. It made me physically sick at the beginning. Literally, I wanted to throw up in the morning because I was just so racked with stress. "