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" I love the Sonoma wine community. It's like Pixar - nothing competitive, only supportive. They're always rooting for you. "
John Lasseter
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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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" The Walt Disney Animation studio is the studio that Walt Disney started himself in 1923, and it's never stopped and never closed its doors and never stopped making animation, and it keeps going as kind of the heart and soul of the company. "
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" 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. "
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" Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults. "
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" Every Pixar film, when we start developing the story, it takes about four years to make one of our films. "
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" Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it. "
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" I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that? "
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" Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director. "
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" Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood are among the most entertaining and beloved characters ever animated by Disney. "
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" You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism. "
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" 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. "
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" There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them. "
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" True play is creativity. "
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True
" I believe once you watch a Miyazaki film, you'll get hooked. "
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" There was a period of time when they estimated the two biggest stars in Hollywood were Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse. "
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Stars
Time
" Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology. "
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" Car love is the sound of a throaty V-8 rumbling and revving, the acceleration throwing you back in the seat - especially when you get on a beautiful, winding road and the light's dappling through the trees. "
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Love
Love Is
" I'm a big fan of pantomime storytelling, being an animator. "
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Being
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" Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period. "
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Best
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" Every Pixar movie at one time was the worst motion picture ever made. "
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" I'm a big Disneyland nut. "
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Nut
Disneyland
" I don't believe that an animation studio should be an executive-driven studio. "
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Animation
Believe
Should
" Rotten Tomatoes is such a great website, in that it has one foot in the Internet world and one foot in the cinema world, and it keeps its grounding between them just perfectly. "
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Great
World
Cinema
" At Pixar, good ideas may be cut from a film, but they are never forgotten. "
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Forgotten
" I would get so into playing as a kid that I'd lose track of time. "
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Playing
" 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. "
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" In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you should do everything you want. "
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" In overseeing both Disney and Pixar Animation, each studio has a unique culture. "
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" 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. "
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" You can achieve all the things you want to do, but it's much better to do it with loved ones around you; family and friends, people that you care about that can help you on the way and can celebrate you, and you can enjoy the journey. "
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