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" 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. "

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" 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

First

" 'The Critic' was so absurd, and I loved that. I loved working with Jon Lovitz, I think he's got a great, great voice for animation. "

" Judy Hopps truly believes in something. We're not just giving her the run of the story, where we give her everything. Through her actions, she has to prove what she believes in. Personally speaking, I think that's cool. "

" 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. "

" There was a moment with 'Zootopia' where we said, 'This is the experiment: let's try Judy in the role of the protagonist. Let her character introduce us to the city and this world.' And suddenly, all that struggling and trying to make traction into this story was done. "

" For artists, we're always looking for approval. We're putting our artwork out there and saying, 'What do you think?' "

" 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. "

" Rather than just making a movie about video games, I wanted to start with the character and what the character was going through. "

" A good movie makes the audience feel like they've journeyed with the characters. "

Rich Moore

Good Movie

Good

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" As an artist, it feels good that we've created something that is connecting with the audience, which is what we always strive to do. "

" We can't put up a movie that looks beautiful but doesn't have substance. "

Rich Moore

Substance

Beautiful

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't like movies, TV shows, or books or anything that's preaching to the audience or speaking down to us. "

Rich Moore

Audience

Movies

" Being able to make a comedy at Disney was really appealing. "

" I like giving the audience a lot of stuff to look at, and rewards for repeated viewings and paying attention. "

" I went to Cal Arts. I went to art school. "

" 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

Sometimes

" I think that 'Family Guy' and 'The Critic' come from some of the same kind of seed. I don't know what it is. "

" So much of the time spent on 'Zootopia' was inventing it. What does it look like? How does it work? "

Rich Moore

Much

Look

" We try lots of stuff. We throw it against the wall, and the stuff that sticks stays in the movie. "

" I would say that what we called the Pixar sensibility goes back even further. It is kind of a CalArts sensibility because so many of the people who are creative instrumental people at Pixar came from that school. "

" 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. "

" It wasn't until I was in that world, directing shows and movies, that I realized basically my job is to give back to another generation what the generation before me gave to me. "

" I love that fans feel comfortable enough to send us their artwork. "

" 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. "